Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.

You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.

That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it