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

I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours.

My God is rock'n'roll.

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.

I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a quaalude.

I dreamed that I was young and smart, and it was not a waste. I dreamed that there was a point of life, and to the human race.