You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.

Why is it that all non-conformists look the same?

All I can go on is my own value system.

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.