Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do.

I'm pretty confident that people are going to come along for the ride. If they don't, tough.

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

I used to routinely break my ribs doing stupid things onstage, but I have a healthy fear of breaking my bones now.

I'm a producer in the old-school way - not just some slacker working on Pro Tools.

Many of the songs were written as a way of paying tribute to specific people, but in the end the songs took on a life of their own and I didn't worry about accuracy or biographical truth, so it's not a problem.

I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read Being and Nothingness and realized that I remembered absolutely nothing when I finished it. I used to go to the library every day and read every day for eight hours. I’d dropped out of high school and had to teach myself. I read Sartre without any background. I just forced myself and I learned nothing.