When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

I got sick of playing husbands and boyfriends because there was nothing there.

God has spoken to me differently through my life, and it has gotten better as I've gotten older. I don't know if that's my reception or his maturing.

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.