I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past.

I believe in nature instead of God.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.