Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

I'm not a believer of the "perfect world" TV tries to feed us.

I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams . . . It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something.

Apart from a very close circle of friends, few people know my true self, and it's normal, I never put it into my music.

Relationships never break cleanly. Like a valuable vase, they are smashed and then glued back together, smashed and glued, smashed and glued until the pieces just don't fit together anymore.

I like to be unhinged; I like to be unpredictable. I like to make people worry that worse things can happen whenever I go out to a restaurant or act in a movie.

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.