The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

Don't date the captain of the football team; be the captain of the football team.

I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it.

You need to write on your own and produce your own life.

I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.

It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.