Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.

Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.

Everything about life makes me lonely.

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.