You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours.

You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

I think when you're young and you get together with a group of guys who think like you and you start to make something that moves you as a group of people and you have a common goal, that's an exciting time.

You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.