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.

If things are too perfect, people are always so afraid that it's going to change, so they ruin it themselves.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

When I was a kid I think the thing I remembered most about The Exorcist was Linda Blair being possessed by the devil, and how scary that was. It had a lot of parallels for me because the movie was challenging different ideas about faith and it was looking at religion in a darker way. Growing up I was afraid of being possessed by the devil, as an adult I'm afraid of being possessed by the world, by ignorance, and not holding on to my beliefs and what I feel strongly about.

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

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