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

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.

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

When I smile at the audience, I'm not smiling because I was told that you're supposed to smile to the audience. I smile because they're all smiling at me, and it's a great feeling to see all these happy people out there, and it makes me happy to see them happy.

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

People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic.