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

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.

It's just a compulsion to create something new and stay busy. I don't know how to do anything else. It was never exactly right. Those records came out in spite of their flaws. And because of their flaws they were good.

I don't want to be in Mötley Crüe or something.