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" I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me. "

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" I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't. "

" I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they'll realize there's more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously. "

" I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music. "

" I really miss being able to blend in with people. "

" I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play. "

" Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small. "

" I bought a gun and chose drugs instead. "

" I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything. "

" My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist. "

" I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else. "

" I like to complain and do nothing to make things better. "

" My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music. "

" If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got. "

" It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings. "

" My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was. "

" Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all. "

" I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music. "

" Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted. "

" I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me. "

" The sun is gone, but I have a light. "

" I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity. "

" Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all. "

" I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks. "

" If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first. "

" When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band. "

" I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean. "

" When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times. "

" I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday. "

" Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of. "