I'm a product of my environment.

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.

I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.