The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when youre being very real, when youre not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and whats morally right or ethically right.

I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal.

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me

I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.

I grabbed my drummer's cymbal in my teeth just as he crashed down on it with his sticks-I blacked out. I was a punk in those days. It was in Seattle. I still have all my teeth too, it's amazing.

I quickly learned to take anger and use it to motivate me. My sister ran away from home, and she was my world. And that was that. The guitar became my world.

I don't think science is totally true, because I've seen miracles happen through prayer.