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I couldn't think of anything worse than hating your own music and having to play it every night. It would be a nightmare.

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

I'd really started hating music. I'd started hating all the songs, hating being in the industry, hating doing the shows. So I had to learn to love music again if I wanted to continue doing this.

I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.

I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.

Some people make their best music when life is horrible.

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.