I always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to give you a map, where that mood came from and where it's going. But my first love was really the music itself, and I guess I've gone back to that.

I've crashed my car three times.

This is the time to remember cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold onto cause we won't although we'll want to.

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.