The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.

Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.

I'll name check Radiohead on this--they've done a pretty suave marketing plan on this new record. I think generally it's been a pretty cool thing, but what they've done is used those (sales) numbers in a way that they can spin them anyway they want cause you don't know what they are.

Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.

I think if there was an ISP tax of some sort, we can say to the consumer, 'All music is now available and able to be downloaded and put in your car and put in your iPod and put up your a-- if you want and it's $5 on your cable bill.'