Growing up in the '70s, it was only a few years before that when men started to grow their hair long. And in the '70s, people were pushing the envelope a little farther, with men having even more style and piercing both their ears and wearing makeup.

We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right.

Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old.

I never understood bands saying Nirvana had anything to do with derailing their career. Maybe those bands didn't have the goods.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film.

Growing up, my mom made us this amazing thing called The Mack Theatrical Wardrobe. It was a massive trunk filled with everything that you'd want as a kid if you were into imagination and play.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.