Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

I really don't worry about what people say or what they have to say or what they think - it just doesn't matter.

A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.

I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.

Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.

The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.