That's the good part of having my past follow me, is that sometimes some of that stuff can help.

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together.

I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.

I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.

When I got home from The Ozzfest in September 2000 with Methods... I just locked myself in my house and I started writing.