How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that's a cliche.

What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare

There are no pimps, no whores, no transvestites - gone. Now that's more the culture I'm comfortable in ... I don't like it in the house, you know what I mean, but I like it somewhere around.

And for so long, I had thought if I was going to write a song, or get "into" something, I had to at least smoke a joint or something. And that didn't work anymore. Once I was fairly well cleaned out, even a little bit of a drug getting into my work threw me off kilter.

It's the same thing: I would think, "If I can't go out and pull some teenager tonight, maybe I'm no good on stage anymore." And you start to think that you even need it as a motivation. I did, anyway.