I think, taking too long to work on a record, you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as I can; it’s just this manic phase where I’m by myself...

Younger songwriters will ask me, ‘What did you do?’ And it’s like, ‘Well, I worked a day job, and I didn’t stake anything. I didn’t quit my day job. I didn’t have any hopes at...

A band’s first album’s usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

People think of me as a nice person because, I think, I have grown into a nice person.

Metal isn’t necessarily aggressive. There’s metal that’s contemplative, there’s metal that’s sad, and there’s metal that’s exuberant. No genre is limited in what it can express.

I love Joan Didion, but I love her writing. I don’t think meeting her could solve my problems or make me understand the world better.

Wrestling’s a form of expression, and it expresses vastness.