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.

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.

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

Live simply; make compassionate choices when it comes to food.

As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be an occasional banana over the top.

We're both cat lovers [with Marilyn Manson].

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.