I used to be a lot more engaged on an improvisational level than other people. I was always on tour and always had a guitar in my hands, and when I went back home, my battery was at full charge. I had a lot of energy to get off, just impulses that I could draw upon.

I was only in the public eye because I was annoying. You know how neurotic people may ask for one thing when they may really want another thing? It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem.

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.

I collaborate a little bit with different aspects of my own mind. I kick my own ass instead of kicking other people's asses.