Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

It's kind of ridiculous that I find inspiration in just getting away from everything. But when you've gone through it, you realize that it's the enemy. It's a distraction from what you're really doing. You've got to keep moving. Like a shark.

It's hard for me to play seated theaters because people tend to sit down and get a little bit complacent, so it's less energy. It's just very dry and dead. People start to feel like they're watching a movie. The environment when they walk into it, it's not standing room only, smoking and drinking and rock 'n' roll. So it's a little bit dangerous to do that.

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

The most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.