And for so long, I had thought if I was going to write a song, or get "into" something, I had to at least smoke a joint or something. And that didn't….

Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate..

It is very important what not to do..

I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a per….

Punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the tim….

DMT was a gaseous wax that you could smoke that gave you a 20-minute psychedelic high. You'd inhale it. And then when you'd exhale—poof, you'd be hig….

I wanted to learn a little bit about acting, not because I thought I'd find a star vehicle and set the world on fire, but I thought the discipline of….

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet..

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at this point in hist….

And if somebody's going to produce me, they should be producing my sound for me. And that's something I have to come up with myself..

The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave….

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice..

I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman..

How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?.

Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge..

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor..

Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination.

I never say never about anything..

Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older..

I'm a travel enthusiast..

I am the passenger, I stay under glass. I look through my window so bright, I see the stars come out tonight. I see the bright and hollow sky, over t….