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

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.

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.

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.

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

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.