I never envisioned what I was doing as part of a career.

I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that makes me bored...and if I'm bored then the music is boring and so are the band!

I know that the gift that God gave me isn't gonna just wither up and die unless I let it die, so it's a matter of me having the faith that it's gonna come out. Whether or not the public's gonna like it is another story. But I think as long as I keep changing and sticking to what I really love - and the same goes for Steven and the other guys in the band - then people are gonna like it.

There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me

You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.