I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

The smallest oceans still make big big waves.

You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well.

You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

Caffeine. The gateway drug.