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

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.

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 is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.

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

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into