What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

You want the audience to be uncomfortable.

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of the church of Rome prevail here, our Constitution would fall. The two cannot exist together. They are in open and direct antagonism with the fundamental theory of our government and of all popular government everywhere.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.