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

Pussy power's pulling me down, down, down, down. When it's there and I can't have it, I get real real rabid.

It is very important what not to do.

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

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 try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.

I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.