We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.

The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don't know what to do with themselves.

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

Been there, done that, seen it, heard it, pissed on it.

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.