Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

In rock 'n' roll it's really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it's about pausing, about internal life, it's about internal triggers - that's one of the reasons I'm really challenged to do a play.

How can you love me if you dont know me? I stink really bad.

My daughter is an angel on earth, so when I see her it all goes away. I see her and - phew! - all that dark goes away pretty much.

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object and to this day it mystifies me.

Real girls aren't perfect, and perfect girls aren't real

[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.