You can't find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to the beach, you go to the mountains, and it's rural. I live up in the Hollywood Hills and I have frogs, owls, coyotes, mountain lions - but I'm ten minutes from the centre of the city.

I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore.

This whole world is run by brutes for the common and the stupid.

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.

When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.

When I say, 'I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,' I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I'm not saying I'm right.

The worst case scenario is you really like someone's work, then you meet them and they're a self-involved, entitled douchebag.