We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.

We're on a road to nowhere, come on inside. Takin' that ride to nowhere, we'll take that ride. I'm feelin' okay this mornin', and you know, we're on the road to paradise, here we go, here we go.

We don't make music, it makes us

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary