What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you'll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude's.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood

If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar.

Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.