If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

Everyone has their own New York in the heart, place where there is hope for everybody.

Until is a very important word. It means that you will never give up.

A woman should have not only equal rights but much more rights than men because she is our sacred and beloved mother.

Stand tall, my friends, when the fool comes around.

Sometimes it's the little things that count most.

Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.

On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.

There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound

Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore. We don't believe in these mythical creatures anymore.