It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.

For me, gradually over the years, you refined your tastes in the way you do things and it becomes maybe less experimental.

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.

My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there.

People being incredibly rude and playing music incredibly badly and being incredibly obnoxious has always been a teenage sort of thing.

I don't, consciously anyways, sort of listen to things with the idea of getting something from them that I can use.