About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.

People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.

This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.

We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to f…

'The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.'

When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes.