I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.

Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

What you don't deal with rules your life.

Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?

Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified. It is attitude. It is all the things that your parents told you not to do. It's the freedom to express yourself. It's being alive. It expresses the times. It's a magazine, a newspaper that tells the truth. If you listen to rap today, it's all about the truth. And that's what we all want. Just give me a little truth.

Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.