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.

Because I’m small, I’ve been called things from ‚Happy Feet‘ to ‚Little Face.‘

I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.

I’m left-handed, and it’s not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I’ve only owned two of them.

A good song never gets old.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don’t know his past; you just know what his plans are.

My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

My favourite poem is the one that starts ‚Thirty days hath September‘ because it actually tells you something.

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous – that is to say, it’s obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

My guitar only has five strings ‚cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

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.

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama’s favorite actors.

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

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

George Carlin’s album, ‚Class Clown,‘ came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I’d come home from school, put it on, and listen over and over. I started memorizing it. I don’t even know why. I loved it so much I memorized it.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

I love the Sex Pistols. I’m a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It’s still got the same strings on it.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

Someone did a graphic of me in my jersey, and Jordan, they dubbed him guarding me, and Kanye’s face was on both of us. That’s my favorite meme of all time – or so far to-date. I’m gonna have to get that blown up on my wall or something.

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He’s not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

I own a ’66 Jaguar. That’s the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

I love good, loud speakers.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

I am a fan of the ‚Rocky‘ films, and ‚Rocky 4‘ is my favourite. I also like ‚The Warriors.‘