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.

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

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

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.

People have to do what they want to do.

There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.

The only justification for looking down on anyone, is that you're going to stop and pick them up.

Life outside is changing our world. We are losing our culture, loosing our roots. How can a living thing grow if its roots are cut?

Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize.

What people don't understand is like when water gets polluted, it's an entire aquifer. There's a whole fascinating world that exists underneath our feet that we don't see, therefore we don't relate.

I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.

I really didn't have any childhood. When you don't know where you are going to sleep for the night.. or find food.. you can't think with the mind of a child. You have to think with the mind of a man.

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.

If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.