Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

The blowing thing is something that you either have a predilection for or not. And I don't have that thing. It was just unsanitary. I couldn't do it. I am a complete germaphobe.

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.