Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?

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 don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.

I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake at the top end of it whenever I hear it, I always think, Man I could've played it better ... but I like the way it sounds. I'd never heard a guitar sound like that before.

Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

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