Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism