If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

I guess, - a greater number of the 26 or so albums that I've made are known in Europe than they are in America.

Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

Bully for you, chilly for me, got to get a raincheck on pain.