I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.
I just don't want to live in the past. I'm really disappointed by so many people of my generation who - in order to promote their new work, they have to constantly lean on their past. I don't want to be that type of artist... I see a lot of people out here doing really marginal music.
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
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 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.
Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.
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.
Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.
I'm not interested in pop art.
Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.
Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.
I tend to be reactionary.
Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.
I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.
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.
I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'
Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.