Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.

Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.

The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.

I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.

Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played.

I live in the house bad reviews built.