I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to do a big radio country album.

Any parent would have reservations if their kid came home dressed like a skinhead, but mine understood that punk kept me focused on something when so many of my friends were out robbing 7-Elevens.

I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.

You can't quite believe what you are hearing - and it's not necessarily something that you can listen to all the time because it's too intense - but it changes the way you go about making music.

If you ask any driver about their first trip to New York, it's always crazy.

My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.

Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.

I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.

If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell . . . how much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?

National Guard soldiers, as you know, give up their jobs, their time with their family, make sacrifices to make sure this country is safe.

You've got to go to the net if you want to score.