I've taken a lot of crap. That's just the way life is. There are going to be writers who like you and writers who despise you.

I just feel really lucky to have had some hits because we had a lot of time where we didn't have them. It's better to have a hit. You can ask anyone - U2, Green Day - and they'll tell you the same thing.

If you go back and listen to the album 'Name' was on, there were a lot of garage songs on it.

It's nice to see bands you could see at a bar finally get a chance.

I have this morbid fascination with being completely alienated from everybody, and a lot of the time I really do feel that way.

I think we'd sold a couple hundred records with our first album, maybe 1,000 at the most.

Too many rockers put on the leather pants and shirt first. But if you write good songs, the pants and shirt will follow.

I made a deadline for myself that if I wasn't earning a living being a musician by 'A Boy Named Goo,' I was going to get back to school, get a degree, and go on with my life - and enjoy the memories I had.

I like Valentine's Day. It's fun.

I'm one of those guys who always has that kind of underlying anxiety kind of always creeping around in the background.