I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

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 still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I’m trying to represent the feelings that I’m feeling as purely as possible