Everybody likes to run around on their phones, including me, but we don't always want to hear who's sweating somewhere in some non-air-conditioned fa….

I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour..

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take..

I created a paradigm by which I could succeed, and up until recently it was the only way I could do it. I could not take the brunt of standing in the….

People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I t….

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't u….

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons..

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre..

Shave your head, wear a 'ZERO' shirt. Take away your identity. What do you have? You still have yourself..

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position..

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience..

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things..

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoe….

I usually wake up far after breakfast. That's as much as you're going to find out about my dietary requirements other than marijuana and vodka..

Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands..

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that….

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them..

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version..

Like any form of death, at some point you just have to get up and say yeah I'll take it, whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen and sorta chop your ….

We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life..

We were just a little immature in the past. I think we actually wanted to create difficult situations for ourselves just to be able to use that emoti….