My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions.

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

No matter what you do or say, there's nothing that you can do to make people understand you.