My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.

If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.

If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population's titillation of the moment.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.