I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

I don't like that the government is going to manipulate the information to try to convince me that what I'm eating is not what I'm really eating. If people choose to eat cardboard because it's ten cents cheaper, then let them. That's at the root of freedom. But in the reverse, I'd like to know if what I'm eating or consuming or buying is somehow hurting or exploiting someone in another part of the planet.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.

Most people don't know that wrestling came out of the circus.