It's like the mod thing is happening again.

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

I am an animal, my teeth are sharp and my mouth is full, and the passion is strong.

Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.