I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.

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.

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.

Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind.

They laboriously do nothing.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

You should do what you want, but I think you should also consider wanting something different.

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.

Frida Kahlo taught me a lot without ever bragging about anything.

You're breaking out of character, again.

We should count time by heart-throbs.

I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.

I love how people walk around with crucifixes, skullcaps, pointy hats, funny beards and then say 'you should keep your atheism to yourself.'