People use irony as a defense mechanism.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything. It has to be mediated with some skill and craft, in order to communicate it to a second, a third, or a fourth person. That doesn't make it any less real. And it doesn't make it any less true. But it does mean that, yeah, it's the combination that makes it work.

I don't think I have grand visions that I will never achieve.

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols