I'm glad we're not splattered all over MTV, because I don't think that's entirely the right way to go about building a career. Look at Green Day - they were built up - and then came crashing down. The overexposure is just too much of a burnout for most people.
A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.
For a show, I can bear a little longer than 45 minutes, not including encores.
It was only later that I found out there was good ‘70s rock like the Raspberries and the Flaming Groovies. I always gravitated toward the ‘60s music more, though, like the Kinks, the Who and the Beatles, of course.
I like inventive melodies and chord changes, a little bit of creativity.
I like Dave Davies from the Kinks, before he could play slick.
Heavy metal is the enemy. Everybody but me keeps going back and forth between metal and punk, but I'm narrow-minded and a purist. I'd never mess with it.
I really liked the Sex Pistols when they came out and I thought they had a lot of melody.
I'm still a fan of the Pixies!
There was a show at the Mayan in Los Angeles where I got overly enthusiastic and jumped into the crowd, and I know they weren't thrilled about that. When I got offstage the manager told me not to do that again. I said, 'Really, for my own safety?' And he said, 'No, because the Pixies don't do that.'
You can't have an ego when you're a team. One person can't really rule the roost.
