The idea of heaven is Christianity's way of creating a hell on earth.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

I've never treated anyone in my band like they're not on the same level as me. I'm not that kind of person.

I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.

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

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal, I'm thinking about doing something illegal. So, whenever I'm around a cop, I get uncomfortable and nervous, worried that I'll say the wrong thing or look so guilty they'll arrest me anyway. Being completely out of my mind on drugs doesn't help the situation any.