I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.

To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.

I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.