As long as you're excited about what you're playing, and as long as it comes from your heart, it's going to be great.

I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

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

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

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.

You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.