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

Well all tai chi has the martial aspect to it, a lot of people don't know, a lot of the teachers won't show it, or they do show it but you don't really learn it, what the application is.

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.

Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.

Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?

Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.