You want to reach people on a real level and have a fan base that understands you.

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.

There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music.

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.

The live experience and the recorded experience are totally different. When you're recording an album, you won't be able to immerse people in sound. When you play live, you want to grab people on the visceral level. They're completely different.

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

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.