You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.