Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could record. It was basically coming down to the idea that he wouldn't let anybody record any music that he didn't think you should be doing. There was going to be an organization that would tell you what you could and couldn't record.

Everyone thinks L.A. is the beach. And actually, Hollywood is really far from the beach.

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

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

Blessing is a curse, seduction and thirst, feeds the hunger that burns inside.

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.'

I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring