If you ranked Odd Future, I was at the very bottom.
All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it.
I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.
I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a canonizing institution. Jann Wenner has worked to make Rolling Stone the keeper of the canon since 1970. I don't like that, because he uses institutional power and he uses economic power to enforce those standards.
It's not like that anymore really, but back in the day, nobody would let the Misfits open up for them, not the Ramones, not the Cramps, nobody.
In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.
I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.
If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.
