All I can go on is my own value system.

I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

I like my home and I like the nature.

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.

I'm a green-tea guy.

I'm a bit weird.

Music is your guide.

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

I don't want to be 25 again.

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

I'm not interested in pop art.

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.