I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world

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.

Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.

I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.

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

All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and I'll always remember it as the first time in my life that I ever felt like I was one with my dreams.

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