You can pout about the way the world is as long as you want, but that's not going to change it. You've got to figure it out.

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

I'm not dissatisfied, just not satisfied in an ultimate sense.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you can call it indecision or you can call it holding out for inspiration.

It’s worth burning myself out like a matchso long as others receive the light and warmth I dispatch.

Spirituality nourishes the soul.

You are in good shape for a dead man.

Never Judge a Book by its Cover". This quote doesn't apply to books only, but also to people, places and everything else.

Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.

If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well.

I think that life is about growth. You continue to grow and progress, hopefully.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.

I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.