I Dropped Out Of High School And

I Mean, I Never Liked Being Told What To Do. It's One Of The Reasons I Dropped Out Of School.

Just The Other Day Someone Threw A Bra Duct-taped To A Tennis Ball. I Just Stood There, Playing Guitar, Thinking How This Was Totally Premeditated. Some Girl Sat Around Inventing A Way To Get Her Bra Onstage From 40 Rows Back.

Whenever I Say I Made A Record In The Garage, People Just Assume That I Have, Like, A Lear Jet Parked In There Or Something. But Really There's Old Luggage, A Couple Of Bikes. It's Big Enough To Put One Minivan In. That's It. No Dartboard. I'm So Not Macho.

Cbgb Was A Wild Place, ... The First Time I Ever Played There Was In 1987, I Think, With My Hardcore Band, Scream. And I Remember The Craziest [thing] About That Club Was You Could Be In Front Of The Stage And It Could Be Louder Than Any Show You've Ever Been To In Your Life. But If You Were Towards The Back Of The Club At The Bar, You Could Sit And Have A Conversation With Someone. It Was The Weirdest Thing To Me.

I Always Loved Writing Songs - Writing For Myself And Demo-ing Songs, Really With No Intention Of Ever Letting Anyone Else Hear Them. Finally The Foo Fighters Stuff Happened When I Just Went To The Studio Down The Street From My House And Recorded Some Stuff In About Five Or Six Days, And All These People Wanted To Release It As An Album. I Wanted To Release It On My Own, With No Photos And No Names On It.