I hated school . . . I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.

I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.

If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.

When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!

Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.

An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.

Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.