I can’t stand playing a show when the audience stands there doing the ambivalent — head bob. It’s so ridiculous, everyone watching each other, everyone trying to be cool. Give it up.

That?s funny that you say that, because I was trying to think, what’s the theme of this record really, and I would say passion and frustration. New rock is frustrated. I’m an incredibly frustrated person....

I’m bleeding. I’m bleeding behind my ear.

But I think we put out.

Honestly, I don’t purposely write dirty songs. To me none of them are dirty; they’re all really sweet. They’re love songs. They’re lust songs.

It’s the best kind of sexuality, the humorous kind. To me, humor is sexy. I never want to take myself too seriously, ever. I take what I do seriously, and I take music seriously, but...

You have to really love both extremes ? recording is really never moving and being in a hole and playing live is moving every second and never stopping. If you love both of those extremes...

I feel more of a kindred bond with the men people compare me to than the women. If someone says Bon Scott or Guns N’ Roses, I’ll take that any day over Peaches.

Every day feels like before the first day of school, you know when you like lay your clothes out, you can’t sleep and you’re really excited.

I’m seeing all these shining braces and push-up bras. It’s a sea of little pimples in the front row. There’s a lot of girls questioning their sexuality, and a lot of young boys ‘, they’re...