I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.

I don't really have a life philosophy; my thing is just rebelling against pretty much organized religion. That is my main thing, because personally I think it's a crutch for people that are too weak to get through life on their own. I'm the kind of guy that says if I don't see it, then it doesn't work. And nobody can show me God.

In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!

I'm always using a towel around my head. Airports don't worry about me.

I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.

I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.

It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y'know, onstage it's all better.