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

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.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

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

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

You are free. Close your eyes. Open your mind. Let this music in, and you will see that this is true

What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I’m trying to represent the feelings that I’m feeling as purely as possible