To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor.

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

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

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.

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.