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.

I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.

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

When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!

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.

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

There's nothing like a stressful day.