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.

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.

Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.

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