My favorite hobby is writing and recording songs at my studio. I like to surf, but I don't get a chance to do that as much as I'd like. I don't live close to the beach. I also like to ski, but I don't get to do that much, either.
There was a period when STP and I weren't making music - we weren't getting along very good at all. But I had my studio, so I was writing and recording a lot of music. But something told me not to put it out. It was all stream of consciousness; it was clever, but it didn't really have substance.
I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.
Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.
It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.
One thing that has really influenced me with Bowie where I've taken an approach from him is how he changes from album to album and has always modified his sound and his appearance. I think that's an important thing.
It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago.
I've seen guys on the street who look the part of a rock star just as much as any rock star. If you feel it and you believe it, then you can get away with it. Rock on!
In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters.
The great thing about kids is the immediate gratification. As soon as I get home from touring, my wife and kids become my life. There is nothing sweeter.
If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn't be playing music, because that would attract zombies.
I still love making records, and I'm able to do it because I own my own studio, and I try to do it as much as possible.
I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.
I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.
When I was around nine years old, I was a fan of Shaun Cassidy's first album.
I was just a kid in 1987 when I heard of the Pixies, the year after I graduated high school. But I had my band together, and my best friend at the time, Corey Hickock, who was the guitar player in the band that would become STP, Mighty Joe Young, turned me on to the Pixies.
I was on the pro-Nirvana, anti-Pearl Jam bandwagon.
I feel lucky to be alive.
You have to spend a lot more time on the road these days if you want to make a living with music.