I'm always trying to push myself into unfamiliar places with the music, sometimes without success, I have to admit. But I'd rather be there than relying on a style that people recognize and want to follow.

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

I don't throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I'm sure I'd snap like a twig.

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

When I walk around New York now, there are so many ghosts. I find it very uncomfortable. There were many hard years, and I never really achieved any kind of comfortable financial success, so I just associate it with struggle. When I had a chance to get out, I was elated.