Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.

I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or from time to time I'll think I'm the greatest gift to music and the coolest guy who ever lived, but that happens maybe an hour out of the week. Some days I'm more concerned with how my hair looks than what my guitar sounds like.

There is no love left in your eyes, there is no love between your thighs.

So as long as I can do the music or create, I'll feel fine.

I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than not enough.