For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.

I'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.

I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.

I have the weirdest job. It's not every day that you get to stand up onstage and unload every ounce of your misanthropic bile onto a crowd of people, and they're like, "Cool! Hit us again!"

I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record.

I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.

I grew up in a place that felt very integrated.

The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.

Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

I like to take advantage of the simple-minded because I can.

Find a way to express what moves you.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.