What I think of when I think of nu-metal: structured, heavy music that has a point. It's angry just like all the other music, but the bigger parts are bigger and the powerful parts are more powerful and the slow parts slower.

Never give up. There is always hope, there is always life. You've just gotta open your heart to it. Live in love.

We'll have a part and it's clearing up, so you think something is going to happen and it totally stops and does something completely different and then the part you thought was going to happen comes out of completely nowhere.

Your uniqueness is your strength. Remember that. Don't mold yourself to others or to what others think. You're an individual. You're special.

Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.

If you have enough strength to help yourself, you have enough strength to help those in need. Never pass up an opportunity.

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.