I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.

I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.