It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.

There's a lot of talk in some of the other versions of the Bible, the Hebrew versions, and things about the end of the world not being a punishment from God, but being an invitation from mankind. That mankind has to invite its own destruction. And I think that's very true, and it's almost very American. I think that's the type of society we're in and it's people's very fear of the Antichrist that has created it

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

For me it's very important to express my thoughts, the pictures I carry inside of me, maybe because it's important to get them out.

Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature that they really are.

I did vote Obama. But I've never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system.

I didn't go to guitar school and I don't know how to play chords, but I can do it in my own way and I think sometimes that will piss off some guitar players who sit around playing their stuff all day long and then there are people who like that.