At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.

In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they can use and exploit, often times lazily. They have no sense of the tradition, they have no sense of honor about those who came before and charted the path.

When you present people with things from the heart and from the soul, they make better choices: They make better choices about their bodies, they make better choices about their partners, they make better choices about the environment.

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

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

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

Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.