A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.

Relationships of any kind are powerful, and they always influence an artist. It's inescapable.

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When you're digging deeper in rock and roll you're on a freight train heading straight for the blues.

I never wanted to play guitar when I was younger. I wanted to be a drummer because everybody plays guitar, and I didn't want to do what everybody else wanted to do.

I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.