There is good and evil within all of us, and I enjoy searching to bring that out through my music. I like it that there are questions brought out by my music. People must look inside themselves for the answers

It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.

I don't care if your world is ending today because I wasn't invited to it anyway.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

I wish that my life could be like the movies, like Bonnie and Clyde or The Hunger or Harold and Maude. And... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.

Without the threat of death, there's no reason to live... at all.

Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature that they really are.