There's a sense that, on a certain day, you want to destroy everything, even the ones you love. Humans are weird like that. You build an empire and you hate it as soon as it's done. That's because we're never satisfied.

Improvisation is risky. I like that. Another practical reason for that is that you have to go out and play every day on a tour. I couldn't do it if I thought I was going to do the same songs every day in the same order, like a full-on robot.

I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.

I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.

People can rock together, people can do great things together, and that's what you love when you're working with characters and it's all going well.

I do really enjoy having a crowd of people out to see me. They really motivate me. I feel really lucky they've come down so I give it what I have got every time.