When I see 16 year-olds waiting for me, I just want to spank them and give them guitars and tell them to start bands. It's a bummer that girls have to respond to rock artists sexually instead of, like, 'wow, me too!'.

I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.

But, you know, all good rock is easy.

I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

In rock 'n' roll it's really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it's about pausing, about internal life, it's about internal triggers - that's one of the reasons I'm really challenged to do a play.

I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.