I think I had to see how bad it could really be to want to live again.

My thing is when people come up and say to me good set tonight and I say you too and then you find out that person is not in any band. Happens to me a lot.

I write the lyrics based on what is going on in my life - I'm not going to write about the old hair metal stuff, like castles and stuff.

Everything I loved became everything I've lost.

For a moment you forget how much the loss hurts. Then you remember and it buries you.

I don't think anyone really knows the purpose of their existence.

I was extremely unpopular at school. Once the hardest kid in school beat me up and there was a plan for about 30 other kids to kick me in the face once I was down. Good times!