Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.

I do all my interviews on the toilet.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

It's not so much about how good a player you are, its how cool you are.

Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine. It’s almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had.

When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum set.