All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians.

Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away.

You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that's the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all the other ones.

As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.