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

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.

The beauty's in the scars.

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.

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

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.