Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

Electricity comes from other planets.

I can't tell the difference between wrong and right, are you laughing at me?

All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.

Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.