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I realize I'm a mirror.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

I don't want to be a dead hero.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

Most great records really start with the drums.

Billy Corgan