I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly of white people in college.

In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they can use and exploit, often times lazily. They have no sense of the tradition, they have no sense of honor about those who came before and charted the path.

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

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.

Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.