My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.

I always wanted to have my own farm. I've never been able to achieve that. It's kinda tough.

The best pay off in the world is when someone comes up to you and says, 'your music has helped me with some pretty rough times through life. I don't know if I would still be here if it was for your music whether it be country music or heavy metal has done for me.' That's ultimately the biggest payoff for me. I hear it from young kids to military guys and military women to older folks.

I would have to go back to being a dog. I've called myself a dog for many years.

The rush of creating sounds and mixing sounds is always an interesting challenge, especially for someone like me, who doesn't know about sound.

I've never left for New York. I've stood my ground here my whole career and hopefully will be able to until the day that I die.

I've never gone to school for recording. I wish I understood it more. School's been hard, learning things has been hard, because of the A.D.H.D., or dyslexia, or whatever you want to call it, but I know how to come up with stuff to bring it together.