What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.

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

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.

I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with

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.

Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal