The Human Element Of Making

Singing Into A Microphone And Learning To Play An Instrument And Learning To Do Your Craft, That's The Most Important Thing For People To Do. It's Not About Being Perfect, It's Not About Sounding Absolutely Correct, It's Not About What Goes On In A Computer. It's About What Goes On In Here [your Heart] And What Goes On In Here [your Head].

Never Lose Faith In Real Rock And Roll Music. Never Lose Faith In That. You Might Have To Look A Little Harder, But It's Always Going To Be There.

It's Important To Me That People Feel Connected To The Band Through The Music, You Know? I Don't Want It To Be Wallpaper. I Don't Want It To Be Background Music. I Want It To Be Clear: This Is The Song. These Are The Words. If You Feel The Same Way As I Do, Sing It As Loud As You Can.

I Think The Producers Or Whoever's Doing The Show Are Tripping So Hard. They Must Be On Acid. They Live In This, Like, Weird Grass Mound And There's This 'sun' In The Sky With This Little Baby's Face That's Just, Like, Bleaaargh-aarghagh. It's Just So Totally Insane. It's Such An Acid Thing, Man. For Kids!

I'm Not Like A Voracious Hoarder Who Has 50,000 Albums Of Vinyl Stacked In A Storage Space In The San Fernando Valley. But I Do Have Albums From The Last 40 Years Of My Life.