"One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change."

"I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me."

"Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person."

"I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death."

"Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song."

"It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car."

"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."

"I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things."