It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.

I'd definitely be into doing some zombie slaying music. That'd be cool.

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.

I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.

You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.

When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.

I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

He who is afraid to lose, is not ready to win

I never wanted to be home-schooled. I didn't like the idea of being home-schooled. It would only separate myself even further from the real world, and that's never what I wanted.

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

A lot of [bureaucratic] rules were created a long time ago when there were different challenges, and they are now causing negative side effects.

Any moment you're willing to give up your fig leaves, which you think are covering you, God will give you His righteousness, which will really cover you.

He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart.

There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.'

My little boy Sonny makes me laugh all the time. He has good comedic timing.

Winning the war of words inside your soul means learning to defy your inner critic.