While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.

I always want to try and see what the appeal is in anything. It's the healthiest and most honest approach.

Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.

I like a lot of hardcore, but it's just a genre about which I don't have much to say. It's kind of a thing where, unless you're active in the hardcore community, what could you have to say of value about it? It resists criticism because it's not just a style but an entrance into several different worlds of ideas- political, philosophical, societal. The music is really only part of the whole scene. In that sense, the music doesn't change much because it shouldn't: It needs to be there as a signal that you're entering into a certain discursive mode, maybe.