When I was a kid, I used to live in New York City. There was a guy named Michael Alig. He used to throw parties. And a couple of times, I even worked for him and his crew, and handed out fliers, and had my super-high shoes on, and wearing silver Saran Wrap around my head or something. It's a world I was really comfortable in: a world full of individuals. I think what I like about that world - besides my own personal interests - is the individualism, the investment in the self.

I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.

When I was a kid I was the king of mullets. If you’re wearing a rock T-shirt and you’re a fan of Rush – one of the greatest bands in the universe – you’ve got to have a mullet.

If I was ever a teen idol, I’d kill myself.

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

I understand that coffee and cigarettes are cool, fashionable and all that. But agree the tea with cookies still taste better.