In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

People drink to numb the pain and suffering. I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

Enjoy your faults, that's what separates you from the rest of the world.

I don't think that my lyrics are over-laced with profanity, because I myself don't speak using a lot of profanity in normal conversation. But I think when you're making something aggressive and you need to get a point across, if you're angry, sometimes profanity is necessary. It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.

I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.