My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

I was a teenager, we were pretty much fully indoctrinated, thanks to sexual scare tactics. I remember so many public-health commercials with a B-actor in a fake alley background warning us to use protection or telling us the only real safe choice was abstinence. We were highly frightened of sex from day one. There was no free-swinging '90s.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

Once I reached my 40s, I thought to myself that if I'm going to play live now, I need to really mean this. I can't go out and be a little bit, for one moment slovenly in my choices as a performer. I mean, these people have paid a lot of money to be here, they've been through the nightmare of getting here, starving themselves waiting for us to get on stage, so I'm going to give them what they came here for.

The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."

Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever.

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.