I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth – share, not give. I think that’s what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share.
It’s OK to be different.
It erases everything I hate about myself. Nothing can hurt me. I feel completely invincible. I feel like everyone else on that stage is invincible and we’re capable of anything. There’s no stopping us.
I’m not drunk, just a little stoned.
Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic’s best friend!
I didn’t want to say anything. I liked Star Wars when I was ten.
When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.
Well, I’m half Italian, so last year on Warped Tour I got this really good tan and I was like, bummer.
It tastes like somebody stole my wallet. Ya know?
You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday.
My music is – I don’t want to say my main focus, but it’s what comes most naturally to me.
I do enjoy manga but would not consider myself a ‘super-fan,’ only really connecting with certain works such as ‘Lone Wolf and Cub,’ or ‘Tekkon Kinkreet,’ the more breakthrough works, and ‘Akira,’ to me, is the daddy of them all.
Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want.
You can’t be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad – there’s something in the middle of them, and that’s really what you are and that’s going to make you the best dad – not when you try to be one or the other.
I don’t know if commerce can every truly be information. I think that’s just commerce, that’s just selling you something.
I think that a lot of journalists don’t really listen to music before they review it.
You are gorgeous, whether you’re a size 4 or 14. It doesn’t matter what you look like on the outside, as long as you’re a good person, as long as you respect others.
Learning to be extremely disciplined has been the key for me. I work really hard during work hours and family really hard during family hours. Family does always come first though, in any situation.
Hey, girls, you’re beautiful. Don’t look at those stupid magazines with sticklike models. Eat healthy and exercise.
I would like to continue to make art by being able to do what I love and have that make it possible for me to support my family. I’d like to make people happy, show people a good time, and hopefully inspire some people.
I do a lot of research, I try to think about how it relates to music and I just do a ton of drawing. It’s much easier to work your ideas out that way.