Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school.

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

You do what you love, or you get arrested.

All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.

But it's not only: What are you going to do about touring, it's: What are you going to do with your life? Is there a point to what we do? I think there is. Making music, creating beautiful things. We have to be in love with the good and the beautiful. If we are not, then you're in a nihilistic state.