I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

Most great records really start with the drums.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.