We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world.

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

What we try to do with all of our albums, is live out our musical fantasies in the most honest fashion we know how...We want to include songs that lyrically cover subjects ranging from the heaviest things we've ever done to light-hearted experiences that can best be presented through sentimental bluesy ballads that are usually good for a chuckle or two.

I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good

It's so strange how my life's changed; I know nothing about the people that I touch.