If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself.

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative. Our goal is nonjudgment, nonfiltered acceptance of everything. So much of our background collectively, especially in the United States, is denying and suppressing and disowning a lot of negativity and the darker areas. You can become swallowed up in it. It's cancerous. The goal should be to define acceptance for everything. To try and consider every aspect. To try to look into the shadows, as well as the light.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.