I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

There is good and evil within all of us, and I enjoy searching to bring that out through my music. I like it that there are questions brought out by my music. People must look inside themselves for the answers

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

I still get excited performing live. When you see the immediate reaction from a crowd, its like being a theater performer, its something you can't get from being a writer or being an ad man ... its almost ritualistic.

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

Rock n roll is about drugs.

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.