I don't pay attention. I don't read stuff or message boards because you definitely get affected. You can read a hundred great comments, amazing comments, and have one bad one and that is all you can focus on and it wrecks your day. It says something about negativity and how it draws us somehow.

The better your base is, and the more you know from experience, the better off you'll be when you try and make the big move.

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

I don't really care if you think I'm strange--I ain't gonna change!

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.