As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

The past is only the future with the lights on

Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.

The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human

I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die.

Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny.

Life's too short to sit through songs you don't love.

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.

A real punk is punk on the inside.

Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.

Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories. I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

Evil comes in various forms, the one it comes most is the crowd of people.

Make your breaking point your turning point.

I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

What kind of leader sends congressmen out on a kamikaze mission in an election year and right before a recess? The kind of leader whose followers are diminishing in number.

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Never mind. There. For good or bad. It's done.

I believe staying young at heart is all in one's personal attitude... you can't instill that in anyone.