Don't let small minded people dictate how you should look and be free.

You lose so many material possessions being on the road. You can't get too attached to stuff and you have to remember that people must never become possessions. People are spheres intersecting. You have to make sure that one sphere doesn't ever take over the other. Individuality is absolutely the most important thing

Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.

Names for bands lose their meaning after a little while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in music, really. The most important thing about choosing a name for a band is if you can imagine forty-thousand people screaming it in unison.

I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.