Usually I'm not really conscious of what's going on. I don't have a lot of memories onstage. At all.

As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.

You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.

You gotta have friends, and it's really hard to have friends that don't operate on the same schedule as you or do the same kind of things you do, because they don't understand it. And then you realize that your friends - your real-life friends - it's not that they become fanboys of you but they become more interested in what you're doing than how you're doing.

I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.

Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.

When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.