If you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it's possible to do that - because these are people's livelihoods we're talking about - and you look at Internet in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different. In some ways, that's the best way of looking at it.

My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician

Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.

And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won't be a nothing anymore.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!

My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth