You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.

My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.'

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s

Wars have always started over religion

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist