We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.

Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.

Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.

Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do.

...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.