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

So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world they're not going to be happy with it.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

I always had the desire to entertain people, whether it was to make 'em laugh or to scare 'em or stir things up just to cause problems.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

You'll understand when I'm dead.

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