I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

It's fun to be in a small club and to be able to look somebody right in the eye and watch them just freak. Then it's fun to be in front of thousands of people and watch a couple of hundred freaking out of their minds.

You can't always trust your mother.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.