I was a pizza-delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn't fire me. I was the only person they had working there.

Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.

I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.

I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams . . . It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something.

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.