It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.

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

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.

Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.

Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.

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 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.