I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

I wish I would have known Kurt Cobain. I would have been the first guy there to get him help, doing anything I could have. I just felt like the people around him kind of let him down.

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.

The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.

I would like to enlighten people.