My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.

As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

I'm not going to hide the fact that I am a happy person.

I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.

I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing?

I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.