I want a girl that can swallow my pride.

Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why I like it . . . The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that’s my idea of a good time.

Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.

Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.

Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

The ONLY thing that seems to band all nations together, is that their governments are universally bad.