I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.

We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that's losing consciousness, that's getting harder.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!