When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety.

If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you're doing together.

I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

I'm just tired and bored with myself.