It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to ... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.

I'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.

You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist.

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.

This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how's he experiencing life if he doesn't get laid? Give me a break. And why would he not get laid, as he created the apparatus in the first place?

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.