My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

I wouldn't wear a tie-dyed tee-shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.