For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing.

I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.

I'm a great self-doubter. I constantly need to prove myself to myself. I've never run to heroin or alcohol to hide that. I always have to deal with it. Stage fright is always going to be there. I have nightmares about bad gigs.

It seems like the more I punish myself, the better it's been. What it is, I'm relentless and I never give up. I never take the easy way out.

I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.