I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.
It's wonderful to read interviews by old blues guys - they talk about all their influences, they talk about who taught them how to play, and who they saw, and how they were determined to play that way.
You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.
The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.
I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.
Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.