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

I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.

I can also be very happy in this life, but it's usually happiness that I get from other lives I've lived and other dimensions. This life is hardly important to me. It's very small compared to the importance that I think the fourth and fifth dimension have. Those places are much more real to me, like when you have a dream and it's more real to you than real life. Compared to where I'll be going, this life seems like a dream that just feels like a dream.

I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.

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

I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument.

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.