To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?

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.

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