There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

I've always been a bit wary of keyboards because there's an invisibility to it - you're not really hitting anything.

I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.

I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.

I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant.

No matter who weaves in and out of your life, regardless of the quality of those deep friendships and familyships, I'm the only common denominator at this point who's been with me the whole time. And there's this sense of trying to make sense of that ultimate solitude. It's not a negative or even a positive. It's just a fact.

I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years.