It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.

I think it would be nice to be a prince.

Initially, I was very much concerned with having absolute control. But as time has gone by, I'm not. I mean, the whole first record was really just how I spent my free time: stoned and drinking coffee in my house, spending three hours on a song.

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

I'd like to thank myself, and congratulate myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.