I Want People To Listen To My

Why Would I Want To Sound Like Joni Mitchell? I've Got Joni Mitchell Records, And They're Great, And I Couldn't Possibly Be That Good.

Rock And Roll Is - And Should Be - A Kid's Place.

It's A Tough Thing To Know That When You're Making Your Album, You're Going To End Up Collaborating With, Say, Wal-mart, On Your Artwork. That Just Sucks. And The Pressure Behind Getting The Numbers Real Fast Is, To Me, Dizzying.

I Feel Like A Quote Out Of Context.

I Used To Do This Big Rant At The End Of Some Gigs With Ben Folds Five. The Band Broke Into This Big Heavy Metal Thing And I Started As A Joke To Scream In A Heavy Metal Falsetto. I Found Myself Saying Things Like: Feel My Pain, I Am White, Feel My Pain.