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

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.

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

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.

He was dressed just like on TV, with lots of silver chains and bracelets, ripped jeans, and a black muscle shirt (Which was kind of stupid, since he didn't have any muscles).

My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.

When I turn down the volume, it's amazing how much I can actually hear.

Epitaph to a waiter: By and by God caught his eye.

Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.

There aren't many idealists in politics.

The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.

I saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts.' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all.