I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill.

The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school. I know [people] who had the popular, good-looking path in high school; they tend not to do so well. It was a little bit too easy for them, where for those of us who struggled in every sense, perhaps our determination and self-reliance and discipline were reinforced by that.

But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...

For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.

All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.