The People Who Were Learning From Me

My Mom Was A Saint. She Taught Me To Be Terminally Nice.

If You Give A Good Performance, Something That Gets Some Feeling Across To People, That’s Such A Rare Gift. It’s Underestimated At This Point In History, When The Music Biz Is Inevitably Turning Into A Kind Of Politics.

Musical Types Tend To Combine The Burden Of The Author With The Burden Of The Actor.

I Was A Pretty Nice Kid. Kind Of Quiet, But Quiet In Terms I Wasn't Going Out And Setting Fire To Anything. I Had A Big Mouth And I Was Creative Type, You Know.

When Punk Began To Be A Genre, People Were Going To Go Out And Try To Mine It. Some Of The Better Groups, Like The Ramones And The Sex Pistols, Were Very Artificial.