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.

The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

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

I realize I'm a mirror.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant to change the way I played guitar, and the kind of songs, and the subject matter, and singing about child abuse, and all this stuff. I had to come from somewhere, and I had to take chances to do that.