I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

I fall in love very easily.

I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, violent point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice. Now that seems like 'entertainment' to me.

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive.

As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.