That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

Nothing in your life is beyond redemption.

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

Let your soul be your pilot.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.