I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.

One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.

If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.