It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

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.

I don't really have any position to complain about my job. Yeah, every job has its moments like, "Ah, you know, it's Wednesday." But I'm blessed. I love my work.

You're not really going to know what a place is like 'til you've lived there a few years - you sort of just have to go with your gut.

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

I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.