Been there, done that, seen it, heard it, pissed on it.

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.

Twenty-eight to 31 is the tough period. You have to be really careful because it's so cataclysmic, so life-altering. People do really dramatic things like get married, or they'll get divorced. Your chances of committing suicide go way up. It's basically psychic death. You see the signs of it around 27, and you're still on the out-end of it around 31. Everyone I've talked to who's gone through that and come out the other side walks out of it like, "MY LIFE IS GREAT".

When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.

Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.

The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.

If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.