I really do think everybody can sing.

I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.

[As a frontman ] I'm going to wear leather pants and get blowjobs in the studio. That would be nice. They are definitely not cool, but I like them. I don't listen to them, but I like them when I hear them on the radio, normally.

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.

So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like "rock lyrics."

You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.