I wanted to create something really aggressive and psychedelic

I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as great as some people, but it's a tragedy when you don't follow your dreams.

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time. You want to make something magical; you want to make something wonderful; you want to give to everybody; you want to heal people; you want to still be inspired. That's not easy.

I dove into the craziness and did things that maybe I would think twice about when I get older.

I do it live on tape with a band. It's not like I'm doing electronic music with a laptop.

After you've been wounded a few times, it's hard to let somebody get that deep again.

I was 19 when I recorded my first album, and I've been exposed to many things during these last few years; all the baby fat is gone.