There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real influence was punk. I must have listened to the first Patti Smith album 300 times.

I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.

I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text.

One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to.

I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music.

It scares me that people are going to stop writing music. I don't mean music that has to be physically written down, but they'll stop using their brain which is without a doubt the most powerful tool that you could have in any art.

I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.