Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound.

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.

There is nothing I like more than pure underground music

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.