Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation...

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it.

I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me

We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.

I did have a Huggy Beardoll. One of his legs fell off. That empty leg became a place where, when we were doing a lot of drugs on tour at one point, we would store the drugs in his empty leg. That's where the term 'dancing with the one-legged man' on Smells Like Children came from, because whenever anyone was doing drugs we called it the 'dance of the one-legged man.' That became a ritualistic thing that was funny for awhile.

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.