If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.

I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.

I hated it so much as a child. I just didn't like it when punk bands went metal, it really bothered me. It was happening left and right in the 1980s. It started I think with D.C. bands - G.I., Soul Side, they went metal. Right at that time, R.E.M. was coming out, these more kinda feminine bands, and I was more drawn to that than to go metal. And you remember MTV, with the bad metal. But even Metallica, it just wasn't my direction.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

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.

Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.

If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?