Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily-digestible garbage.

The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because your thinking about them for the same amount of time.

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

America puts killers on the cover of Time magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.