I'm still an angry dude. I'm just older. I still push the band to be heavy and dark-that's always been my role.

I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.

We're happy with what we've achieved. Every record we've made has furthered the growth of our line of success. It's never disappeared or gone backward: each record sells more, each tour is bigger.

Being a rock star is really a 24-hour-a-day job, and you really can't escape it.

Fix was starting to see that this was the way life worked once you got older and the kids came

If I only looked at what I've lost, I'd never be able to see what I have.

Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage.

being is one day and a million nights. the blood on the glass, blood lust with the sun holding. the universe beats for the lost and found. with you.

He laughs again and I want to eat his laughter, be nourished by it, feel it in my blood.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.