Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass!

I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal.

I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack, so I built one myself ... I wanted a Gibson type of sound but with a Strat vibrato .. I went to town painting it and I put three pickups back in, but they don't work - only the rear one works

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

Bass is for people who can't play guitar