It's painful to not be able to fully focus, but it keeps you fresh.

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.

Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.

I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i don't really want to be part of stamping the boundaries on a scene.

I have always felt a little held back by working with other people in recording.

I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.

I hope to incorporate more variety of beats, more syncopation. It becomes very easy to play straight beats; straight rock is alluring.

Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.

I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.

It's really nice to have things to mail to people when they mail you things, or trade to people at shows. Something homemade, it feels... down to earth.

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.

The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.

I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.

I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows.

Every time you achieve a dream, you must set another one. Because that will strengthen your path. Or you will become dead, because if you have no dreams, you have no life.

I have to force a smile off my face as I sit limply in my seat... Then, just as I'm congratulating myself for such a stellar plan.

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

Prayer is a concentration of positive thoughts.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it.