People need to be shocked out of their complacency about tobacco,

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them hanging out together.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!