Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die.

Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.

Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

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

I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.