I'm afraid of everything. I'm not a naturally courageous person.

They spoke truth and a lot of people listened.... that voice, Kurt we miss you.

I was doing that [a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.

The only thing to fear is fearlessness.

[Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the age of 15, I hounded the local record store to order a copy of Horses [1975] for me by Patti Smith.

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.