If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

I'm not saying I wouldn't play a seven-string. It's just that I've never needed one. Most dudes who play seven-strings don't sound any different than someone playing a six-string that's tuned down.

To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.

A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.

If you believe in existence, you will refuse to be a hero!

Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.

I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

I love what I do and I dont want to stop - This is all Ive ever wanted.

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.

After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.