The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I’m really a jock.
Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.
Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population’s titillation of the moment.
The things I’m guided to do are really strange to me.
There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it’s a good, earned feeling now.
It’s what the mainstream does – they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.
Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.
What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they’re in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.
When I’ve tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
I don’t think ’90s music was as significant as ’60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just.
I’ll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can’t underestimate band chemistry.
As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.
Around the mid-’90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.
I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.
Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.
Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.
I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.
It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, “Here’s this little guy with a monster-guitar sound.” And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.
I’m from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.