You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.

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

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

Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

I want people to see me happy.

The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.