15 MINUTES: How long have you beenplaying together?

CB: Three years.

15 MINUTES: Do you like to play fuckedup?

CB: I don't like to. I don't haveanything against people getting fucked up. I don'thave anything against people sucking goat dicks,but I find that when I smoke I sing off pitch. Oneof the reasons that we're a pretty popular band isthat we have a sense of honoring our ticket weconsider our ticket a contract I have signed andhanded to everyone in the crowd and said I amgoing to do the best. I've tripped on acid onstage a number of times so you never going to nowwhen that happens.

15 MINUTES: What's that like?

CB: Extremely frightening. It's baptismby fire. But it's very rewarding. Pot tires myvoice off. I used to get really high when my voicewas high. now I'm willing to slow down. It's notso cool now to be carrying pot around the country.

15 MINUTES: Where'd you go to school?

CB: I went to Princeton High. I went toBennington for one year. I studied ceramics, alittle anthropology. I got into poetry, though. Igot into writing my own poetry. I wrote poetry fora while before I got into others. I'm dyslexic soits hard for me to read. So I had to work prettyhard towards being a poet before I got around toreading other people's poetry. I don't think I'm apoet yet by any means. I have a way to go.

15 MINUTES: What's your personal goal?

CB: My personal goal is to live on afarm and rule a dog and a cow and a pig.

15 MINUTES: Who do you like out thereright now?

CB: Perry Farrell (former lead singerfor Jane's Addiction) I think is the greatestthing since sliced bread. I weep that he quit.He's so beautiful the things he does and says. Iwent to see them once. It was so funny there werelike 10,000 people there. And I felt like I wasthe only person in the crowd who understood whathe was saying. I wouldn't presume to know him, butI would presume to know what its like to be up onstage behind a mike stand. He made this comment,"you guys, you're like worms out there, tenthousand worms out here" and I shouted out at thetop of my lung, "what do the fuck do you meanPerry? What the fuck are you talking about?"That's weird, though, `cause I knew exactly whathe was talking about. Anyway, that's sort of anobscure story.

15 MINUTES: Why didn't you guys play"Two Princes" (the band's most recent single)tonight?

CB: One of the things about this band iswe try not to play the same set twice. We try tomix it up. When we first started playing. Weplayed in New York City, where you have to playlike five nights a week. Just to keep ourselvesinterested and to keep people coming back, we playa different set everynight. Just like tonight, wedidn't play two princes. So you come back anothernight and maybe we'll play it