I Think It's Important To

I Don't Give A Damn About My Reputation. You're Living In The Past, It's A New Generation.

I Remember Times When I Was At Shows And The Person Onstage Locked Eyes With Me. And In That Moment, Everything Was Right With The World. I Think That's Part Of My Job, To Create These Thousands Of Moments Every Night. And For The Rest Of Their Life, They Can Say, 'you Guys Looked At Me,' Or 'you Sweated On Me,' Or 'i Got Your Gum.'

Well You Know I've Been In That Place Too Where You Worry About What Everybody Thinks Of You, Am I Popular, Do People Care, Are They Looking At Me, All That Stuff. That's A Drag, Man. Having To Worry About Fitting In, Am I Cool Enough To Anything.

Shaving My Head Was A Millennium Ritual, To Not Let It Pass As Just Another New Year's Eve. A Lot Has Happened To Me In The Last Couple Of Years, Personally And Spiritually. I Wanted To Mark It For Myself.

We All Make Judgments On People, But Some Are Much More Brutal Than Others. It's Easy To Say, 'ya Know, I'm Not Crazy About What She's Wearing,' But You Don't Have To Be Nasty About It, And You Don't Have To Be Public About It.