To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

I'm not saying I wouldn't play a seven-string. It's just that I've never needed one. Most dudes who play seven-strings don't sound any different than someone playing a six-string that's tuned down.

A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.

Love knows nothing of short hauls because it has committed itself for the long haul.

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.

The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.

I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.

By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.

A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.

Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?

I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.