There's no law that says anybody has to do an interview.

Just as not all popular albums are wonderful, not all wonderful albums are popular.

You didn't have to be a huge rock star; you just had to do well enough to continue doing what you wanted to do. It wasn't about hitting the jackpot, it was about sustainability.

Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

There's no glamour in Nirvana, no glamour at all, in fact.

There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really took it on the chin.

Nine Inch Nails' sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals.

I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.

The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action.

A cell is just a room if you don't lock the door.

I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

What makes worship amazing is the object of our worship.

Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie.

My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland.

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

You scared me for a minute there. I thought Newton was dragging your dead body off to bury it in the woods.

All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature.