I love doing film soundtracks and working with directors on how they want the scene to be portrayed on audio as opposed to visual. I like the collaborative effort of working with people.

I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.

Ministry is just ZZ Top with technology.

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.

If you remember the ‘90s, you weren’t there.

I pissed away over ten million dollars On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I'm back

God’s power is the grace of prayer.

What is failure to a person who is not afraid to learn from it and try again?

Failure is not sweet but it need not be bitter.

I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.

When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

We like to set off bombs.

I would say that now I'm somebody who goes to church.

The only life I want is one with you.

The people that always impress me are the ones that are curious about what they're going to do next.