You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.

My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.

I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much.

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

We've turned into a whining society.

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

I had such a big mouth for so long that it doesn't faze anybody anymore.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

I tend to be reactionary.