It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart.

I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.

Being a human being is lost. For 120 shows, the one that goes bad is the one that people will talk about.

Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote down, but I'll just have this physical memory of having written it, and in my mind I can see the piece of paper, and the words I wrote down, and then by muscle memory, I'll remember the chords that go along with it.

If I had a reed made of lightening I could blow the sax all night... I don't know where one would acquire a reed made of lightening but I would imagine that Bill Clinton has one.

It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.

To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling.