We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me.

Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.

I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didnt.