The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.

Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.

I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.

The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.