I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however felt good to me.

If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.

I still get really excited looking at stuff that I've seen every day for 20 years.

I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.

For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.