I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.

I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.

Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.

I'm just not a big fan of the too-cool-for-school indie world. Metal bands have never been invited or been able to be part of the cool kids, and I like it that way.

I really don't worry about what people say or what they have to say or what they think - it just doesn't matter.

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.

If you want money, you must work to earn it.

I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as "cute."

Keep your head up because one day one person will fight like hell for you, the same as you would for them, and it will be a deep love. So keep your head up.

One who will study for three years. Without thought of reward. Would be hard indeed to find.

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

There are certain people that when they ask you to do a film, you just say, "Where and when?"

Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.

Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.

Conformity is an imitation of grace.