Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a pair of spandex tights trying to reclaim my youth.

I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.

I've never been interested in being relevant.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

I don't really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?

We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.