Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.

We just did three albums in a row of shaking our fists in the air and yelling about George W.Bush and the government. I didn't think I was going to have to do three, but the idiot kept getting reelected. I just wanted to remind people that Ministry is actually a good rock band. We can do some party stuff, too.

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

Our label is very digital-friendly. We try to provide some free stuff to get interest in the band, but we have to pay our artists. They have to get paid.

It's all downloading. As a matter of fact, within five years, there will be no CDs.

I'm for Barack Obama. We gotta have the Muslim cell in there just to piss Rush Limbaugh and the right wing off.