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.

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

I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.

Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.

I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.