You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.

I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.