If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick.

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

I think when you're young and you get together with a group of guys who think like you and you start to make something that moves you as a group of people and you have a common goal, that's an exciting time.

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.

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've always been a fan of album covers with no writing on them and have used them a lot in my own groups.

You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.