Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.

What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.

Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

Everything that happens helps you grow, even if its hard to see right now.

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.

There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

I've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person.

You're never a failure until you fail to get up.

There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom.

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.