Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

I'd definitely be into doing some zombie slaying music. That'd be cool.

I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.

I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.

You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.

When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.

I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

People have to do what they want to do.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

Whether a man favors crepes and classical or cornbread and country, the complexities of life are all the same.-The Rabbi-

I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm not interested in just putting clothes in stores.

Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.

Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.

Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.

It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.