The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before.
The Beatles have always had a big effect on me.
I think it'd be fun to tour with Kiss just because Kiss is the reason I got into playing in a band.
I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.
It's a bit of a bold statement, but the Prodigy should be seen as an important cultural band.
There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records.
The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.
We became a really good gateway band for all the kids that went on to love My Chem or Fall Out Boy.
I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.
The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.
The Ramones were American, and I knew about them, and I thought they were interesting. But they were like a pop band to me.
I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.'
I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.
Thanks for existing, R.E.M. It's hard to overstate how much these guys changed everything, creating an entire rock audience in their own image.
Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks.
The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.
We all grew up with Black Sabbath. I mean, there's no secret there. Any of us, any of the members of any band I've ever been in, or anyone I've ever worked with.
Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
Pearl Jam were a part of my growing up.
Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.
As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.
I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.
The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.
We looked at the Allman Brothers as the fathers of what was to be called Southern rock. In our book, if you didn't like the Allman Brothers, you were sacrilegious.
I have been listening to the Stooges' self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with.
