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.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.

Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument.