I’d forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn’t even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

Even the bands I dig don’t have a history of attaining mass consumption.

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn’t taken a vacation.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that’s probably true.

I lie around and play guitar, that’s something I do for sure. In fact that’s all I do, I think.

When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of ’em.

CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don’t smell of anything.

It’s better when you have your wife with you, more fun.

When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly – constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

See, to me, rock’n’roll doesn’t have any point. It’s just fun. It has a million different angles and they’re all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.