My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions, I do call us a rock'n'roll band.

The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just mirror it all.

We [Notekillers] are in no way super-earnest about what we do and if you see us live, you see we are cracking up during songs and saying pretty ridiculous things in-between. We're having fun.

Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of the title is a kind of humorous futility.

We [Notekillers] aren't necessarily trying to be role models, but if we are, that's cool.

I like to give clues - titles - that can give a simple, evocative hook into what picture or feeling welled up in my mind when I came up with the song.

I do think I've learned, in the ensuing years, how to be a more effective bandleader. And maybe, just maybe, we're a little better on our instruments.

Еach song is like starting over. Because somehow, no song's formula works for another. And that's the beauty of it all. Each song's destiny is embedded in its DNA. And our job is to reveal it.

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

To me, everything in the world comes down to two categories: "about-ness" and "is-ness". "About" represents or describes something, while "Is" is the thing itself.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology.

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

To live by grace is to live solely by the merit of Jesus Christ. To live by grace is to base my entire relationship with God, including my acceptance and standing with Him, on my union with Christ.

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.

It costs a lot to be authentic. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being.

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.