There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.

I've always despised the hippies.

When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole

I have the integrity of a teenager and that's never going to be stolen from me. I'm the original virgin.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.