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

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

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.

That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.

People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.