It's time to listen to the stories of the Indigenous; we are blessed as a country to look to the wisdom of a really old country.

If you're aiming for a hole in one, and you get one, you feel lucky - but at the same time you can justifiably say, 'Well, I was aiming for the hole anyway.'

To be honest, I think affiliation is anathema - if you're a rock 'n' roller, you're a lone wolf.

I'm a dancer. It's what I love to do more than anything.

I'm a music fan - I love meeting other musicians, I love talking to other musicians - and what greater opportunity to take advantage of whatever standing we might have to try and attract people? To say 'We don't know you, but we love you, and will you come play with us?' Sometimes they actually do.

As you get older, you mellow, but there's a natural propensity to watch what you say, 'cause you learn that you want more time and space to craft what you want to say because you're less likely to want to say impetuous things, or things that aren't thought-out properly.

It's funny I'm talking to 'Rolling Stone' right now, because back then, it was like, 'Punk rock? Put it back. It's just a flash in the pan.'

It's pretty crazy the amount of people that have covered my songs.

Pop music doesn't challenge anything.

All that pop that you see on the radio? It's just the worst crud I've ever heard in my life. It's designed to make money, and that's about it.

The most rebelliousness I see now is coming out of WikiLeaks and D.C. Leaks and BlackListed News.

I've always tried to expand what heavy or loud music was and where it can go and what it can do.

I'm lucky that I can stay busy and people are interested in what I do. I have fantastic people that are into whatever I do, which is great. I try to keep myself happy and them happy.

CDs sound so much better than MP3s. I'm sure they'll come out with a better format someday.

I hate iPods.

When I write, I write the drum beat. Though sometimes I write on piano or guitar.

My attitude with covers is, make it your own or else leave it alone.

The thing that has never changed is I do what I want to do. If I can't do what I want to do, I don't want to do it.

Two hours onstage... that's the best part because it makes it all worth it.

I love giving the energy and getting the energy back. There is nothing like it.

I've seen a bunch of the 'Portlandia' episodes, and they're pretty hilarious.

So many big magazines just dissed the whole punk thing as nothing, but really, it was a big thing. It really changed, and that's what we wanted to do - change the system.

Sometimes on a tour bus, we watch comedy when it's slow.

I don't think anyone in my family was funny.