Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here...maybe add some blue over here.' You can sit back and look at the painting.

As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

I knew that I was going to dedicate my life to music and that was it.

You have to have passion for anything you do. Whether it's sports, whether it's music, whether you want to be Mother Theresa, you have to have passion for what it is you do, or what's the point in getting up in the morning and getting out of bed?

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

Whatever it is you love, and whatever it is that you want to do, that's what you should be doing.