I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.

Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want...and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands.