To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.

I remember, in 1999, when we did the last Ozzfest that we were part of, and I think Disturbed was on it, Static-X, obviously Ozzy, us, and we were the only band on the tour that had a rider that had any alcohol. Nobody else had it.