Art gives people a reason to be alive.

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

My feelings are, if you're gonna lead a rock n' roll lifestyle, don't let it affect your work. I know I can stay up all night and still come in the next day and write a song, and nothing will stop me from doing it. I expect the same from everyone else.

Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that the suffering they were praying to be released from was a suffering they had imposed on themselves—and now us. The beast they lived in fear of was really themselves: It was man, not some mythological demon, that was going to destroy man in the end. And this beast had been created out of their fear.

I traveled into the future to get back in time.