Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.

This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

Everything is acting.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

Multiply your death, divide by sex, add up your violence, what do you get?

People drink to numb the pain and suffering. I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

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