I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic

I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.

We're both cat lovers [with Marilyn Manson].

We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do with their bodies. We are just a rock band.

I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant to change the way I played guitar, and the kind of songs, and the subject matter, and singing about child abuse, and all this stuff. I had to come from somewhere, and I had to take chances to do that.

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.