Almost everything I do, especially later on, is really very scripted. And I do it over and over again until it's perfect.

Even when I am forced to conform - we all are on many levels - that line is definitive. It says exactly what it means: Be an individual, you know? Be yourself.

I don't have a label, I don't have a manager, I'm doing everything myself.

I have an aversion to conformity.

There are bands now, and for years, that called themselves emo. I never followed that stuff.

Almost everything I do, especially later on, is really very scripted. And I do it over and over again until it's perfect.

My music is music that Christians and Catholics can listen to. Muslims. Buddhists. And non-religious people as well. It's just music. You can look at the music in several different ways. It's music for everybody.