Basically, a band's first record is them coming together and really learning everything, and then, after they're on the road and really become a unit, the next record slams.

I did a lot of great things in the past, but I live for today and for the future.

A lot of people are really hung on the past - they can't get past that - but you've gotta get past that if you want any future.

I don't live in the past.

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely. It's always good to have a world that people don't know about - a world that hasn't yet been done. It's like treading on fresh snow. You're the first one there. It always feels good to be dealing with a period of history or a world that no one else has dealt with.

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.