You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours.

I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.

The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me.

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.

I think a myth is created from truth.

You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.