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

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.

Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.

It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.

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.

Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude them from our circle.

I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.