To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.

What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don't know. Maybe that it's just the most possible - I don't know - of all the supernatural entities.

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.

If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it.

At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.