When I smile at the audience, I'm not smiling because I was told that you're supposed to smile to the audience. I smile because they're all smiling at me, and it's a great feeling to see all these happy people out there, and it makes me happy to see them happy.

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

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.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

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.