It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

I think the media's the kind of thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

It's harder to put yourself in a place where you could easily be seen as a fake. But that's more interesting to me.

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.

It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.