I’d rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.
I had no direction. I thought, ‘I need to make a difference in my life,’ and music was my answer.
There are really so many people trying to get control over you on a daily basis and steal your soul in some way, take a part of you...
All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.
Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.
Most times with vanity projects, publishers don’t believe in the work; they just believe in the name.
My parents didn’t have records, they didn’t have radios, and they didn’t listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.
The boys and girls in the clique. The awful names that they stick. You’re never gonna fit in much kid, but it you’re troubled and hurt, what you’ve got under your shirt will make them pay for the things that they did!
It is not a band. It is an idea.
I’m the master of the wicket!
You just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart.
Shut up and let me see your jazz hands.
I’d rather goto Hell than be in Purgatory.
Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks.
It’s always a longer walk to the men’s room, buckaroo.
And after all this time that you still owe, you’re still a good-for nothing I don’t know.
We have to do it, so there’s no point in bitching.
The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it’s a waste of time.
My wife totally backs the way I am on stage; that’s one of the amazing things about her. I have 120 per cent respect for her when I’m on stage, so there are definitely certain things I would never do.