It was a natural path for me, being an artist. Both my parents were artists. I was surrounded by it and I instinctively was drawn toward it, and received a lot of encouragement.

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.

I was fortunate to be connected with bands who later became pioneers for certain genres of music scenes. And my art went along with them for that ride and became associated with it.

I have a goal to do my own animated film, something all my own.

I loved music and art, combining the two seemed like a natural match.

I was buying old records a lot in my early teenage years and I was mostly drawn toward the artwork even more than the band itself. I loved the way the art set the scene for the music.

I was always into animation, especially.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state.

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music.

Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.

I've had my heart broken one too many times.