If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade

All we wanted to do was to make live records all available. For us, the idea is to make it all available and let people decide which ones they like better. It's not for us to decide. We don't care about that. What we're interested in is the idea that we made these recordings, and they're not doing anybody a damn bit of good sitting in a closet.

I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on television.

I do not consider myself a teddybear. Just to be clear, I don't feel sorry for myself.

I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all. I don't take anything back, so I do look after them to some degree. But my main focus is on what I'm doing now.

The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.