It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it. It's tricky and definitely a requires striking a delicate balance.

Not everybody is going to love what you do, but you have to be yourself, that's what's most important. Bring it as hard as you can.

Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.

The important thing isn't that your technically great, I think it's the power of your expression.

Speak with your own voice and be as unique as you possibly can.

I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump aboard a trend.

Punk rock and metal has always been a home to me, it's where I cut my teeth; and those are the friends that I have, and the bands that I love.

I recognize that no matter how old I get, how many records I've done, or what the public perception of me is, there are still exciting things that I haven't done.

Give your stuff away and if it's good, people will come to you.

In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.

I take myself seriously and want my image to me more than just something aesthetically suited towards selling records.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.

I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind.

I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?

Love that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end.

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?"

I could shove this swizzle stick through his heart, Min thought. She would'nt do it, of course. The stick was plastic and not nearly pointed enough on the end.

The older we get the less afraid we are.

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.