Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

I'm gonna abandon my spirit to them, which is actually what I attempt to do. You work yourself up into that state and you fall in supplication of the demon gods.

The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

Well a good writer writes, a good musician listens to a lot more than he actually composes, and if you're going to do lyrics - well, there's a Freudian slip. That's not even a slip, that's a Freudian move: I said going to do lyrics. If you really want it to ring true, you'll live it first. Go really get your heart broken!

Music videos are like girlfriends. I'm constantly amazed on what other people doing