Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.

I hated school . . . I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.

When I was around Bowie, I was nearing the bottom. When we were touring together, I looked at him as a kind of big-brother figure and I also looked at him as somebody I had a lot of respect for. The age and the period he's at in his life, I'd like to be there some day. He has a kind of content peace about him that's something to shoot for.

God is dead, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.