At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues.

Music is life, and life is not a business.

Well, it wasn't like I was going to run out and score heroin and score an ounce of coke - but incidentally, on the road, I would usually get tanked up and as stoned as I possibly could to go on stage. And offstage, it would be a demon that would come up about twice a week.

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. If I really feel like getting formal, I'll put on board shorts.

I'm not the kind of person that likes to be dependent.