One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

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

We are the most beloved and hated band in the world.

I don't like that the government is going to manipulate the information to try to convince me that what I'm eating is not what I'm really eating. If people choose to eat cardboard because it's ten cents cheaper, then let them. That's at the root of freedom. But in the reverse, I'd like to know if what I'm eating or consuming or buying is somehow hurting or exploiting someone in another part of the planet.

It's wonderful to read interviews by old blues guys - they talk about all their influences, they talk about who taught them how to play, and who they saw, and how they were determined to play that way.

I met Scott Stapp when the band was first coming up, great guy. I haven't seen him for years, but a great guy.

Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.