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

As long as you're excited about what you're playing, and as long as it comes from your heart, it's going to be great.

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

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.

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.

I never feel like I'm running out of ideas, because it is clear to me - music is infinite