I am definitely less and less interested in music made by people that exist today, people that are living. I just see them as part of the whole stupid process of the music business, desperate (even if they feign indifference) to get noticed, trying to "make it" in the stinking music business, to become "famous" etc, and it disgusts me.

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

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

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

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're dependent on the music.

You find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly.