We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it didn't necessarily have to have any particular meaning to us. As odd as it seemed to us, reviewers would take it upon themselves to interject their own meanings on our lyrics. Sometimes we sit and read other people's interpretations of our lyrics and think, 'Hey, that's pretty good.' If we liked it, we would keep our mouths shut and just accept the credit as if it was what we meant all along.

I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...

We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.