The fact that I fell into this seemed more like a stroke of good fortune than hard work. Not to say that I didn't work hard, but it wasn't like, "I'm going to be a musician."

My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head... I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

People quickly forget that people are people.

I like Ministry, but I'm probably never going to make a song that sounds like Ministry.

I don't place too much importance on words. It's always the last thing I do because I'm definitely more interested in mood.

I was a very private person. All of a sudden, to see myself all over the internet and be like, "Oh god, do I want people to even hear this stuff?"

I make the music that I make because that's what naturally comes to me.

I still write poetry from time to time, but my whole life is so music-oriented at this point that it's hard for me to even think about having other hobbies.

It always felt like I had to be a realist.

I did a lot of writing when I was in college, and that's what I thought I wanted to do; saying that I wanted to be a writer seemed more reasonable than saying I wanted to be a musician.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

I put all my positive energy into positive action.

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

Any time somebody is into your band that's a good thing. And if they're in a really cool, really popular band, that's a better thing.

You know, kicking people's butts with round-edged boots is good, but with pointy shoes, it's even better.

The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.

Claim the things you want by feeling and believing they are yours.

Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.