Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.

Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.