But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.

In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.

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.

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

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

Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.

All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and I'll always remember it as the first time in my life that I ever felt like I was one with my dreams.