Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.

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.

Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.

You just never know when somebodys gonna die. It could happen at any moment so youve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.

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 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.

To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.