If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.

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.

I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one.

My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.