To me, craft work is the ultimate. Maybe I got this idea from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, who was employed as a sculptor to the state and church, making coins and things. While he admired Michelangelo, he also made fun of his spiritual angst with art.

I don't have a problem doing interviews. It's not punishment. There's things about it that I don't like. No one else is really saying these kinds of things, so someone has to. I don't think that it's the most humbled thing to talk about yourself for hours and hours and hours.

That's what I mean by "Western morality," is the lack of morality. There is none. People are out for themselves, and they'll stab you in the back.

I don't think anyone knows anything and I don't trust people who say that they do. Don't give me a plan, give me action.

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.

I don't really write for an album. I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me. It's all a complete accident.

With death comes a choice. And death is a choice.