We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

I have a lot faith in the younger generation of music lovers. Youth isn't living in the past; if somebody tells them that there's something better than what they have, they're going to check it out. And if they like it, they're going to get it. I'm not worried about the youth. Young people aren't just looking back, they are also looking forward.

I do one take; I never overdubbed twice. I know there's stuff that isn't perfect, but it doesn't matter: Nothing is perfect, and there is a magic there that is undeniable because of the fact that we don't care about those things.

The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

Social media and young people, art, music, all communications make this one of the most active times for activism. It will be a time of change.

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.