After a while, you start to believe that your opinions are more valid than everyone else's. It can be hard to be humble about making really good music; you really believe that you're a savior to music. That's why bands don't like each other.

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all.

Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.

I have a real problem with rock music because it seems that lineage doesn't really exist.

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

I think Paris Hilton is really our generation's Marilyn Monroe. She's the image of the youth today. There's a real fascination with Paris, ranging on the obsessive. I'm repulsed by her, but because of her notoriety, she has access to an audience.