You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.

I want a thousand guitars . . .

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.

You're young and you're always in pursuit your young manhood. You're trying to figure out - what does that mean? What does - you know, there's a lot of pressure on young men to sort that out. And, you know, we tend to gravitate towards one-dimensional iconography as far as what it means to be a fully grown man. And you can get lost in so much of it out there.