That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

It was supposed to be gross, and now it's gorgeous.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

If you were to sit me down in a classroom, with fluorescent lights humming and some woman trying to teach me Italian, there's no way. But scream goes to Italy, we stay in a squat, and the only way you can ask someone where to take a piss is to do it in Italian. So I learned Italian.

It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.