After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.

After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

If you read, you'll judge.

For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.