If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.
I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.
Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.
Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.
I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.
Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.
I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.
There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.
Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.
I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one.
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
You give me a @#$%& kazoo and I'll write you a good song.
There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.
Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.
For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.
If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.
At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.
I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.
I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to be praised ten, fifteen, twenty years later for what I did once in this overt consciousness.
I don't think I'm before my time, I just don't think I'm in my time.
That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.
I think humankind is going to have to evolve into systems that are more transparent. Then people will be able to make more integral choices about the food they eat.
Like any form of death, at some point you just have to get up and say yeah I'll take it, whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen and sorta chop your head off. It's easy to avoid all that...there's always another moment, another girl, another high, another drug, there's always something to distract you.
