What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.

When I'm playing best, I'm just thinking about the music, just interacting with what my bandmates are playing.

I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.

I'm against American corporations buying politicians to remove limits to greed, capitalizing on other people's misery, actively creating misery on which to capitalize, "financializing" every moment of our enslaved lives. Then when China or somebody takes over, then it will be [them] doing those things that I'll be against.

There were no rules. There's no guide to follow. I would just trust my instincts for some unknown reason. Something inside me would say, "This guitar is not loud enough," and I wouldn't know why. You never know how to reach that point until you've reached it.

It's a great privilege to be able to play that much. When you play a lot, you can be really detail-oriented.