I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.

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

Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.

Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.

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.