The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

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

People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.

Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.