After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

I never really followed grunge.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.