In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

I don't want to be a professional cripple. And I don't see the suicide stuff as tragic.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.