I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.'

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting is just a way to get out of the hard work of making music that will do some lasting damage.

We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.

I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.