I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me.

I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.

He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.

Any art that you are playing based on effort, loses something. I think that most of the time it should be something that happens, and you are inspired, and you just feel and follow your instincts. The best chiseled sculptures happen when the sculptor looks at the stone and says "I saw this sculpture in the stone, and I had to get it out." It's not contrived.

All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.

I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.