I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.

The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition within the band; it's about playing as a band.

I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

The beauty's in the scars.