If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.

We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant.

It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.

We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.