Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out the life that was inside of me. I had this duality of trying to kill myself with drugs, then eating really good food and exercising and going swimming and trying to be a part of life. I was always going back and forth on some level.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.