On what he would like to do instead of music: I've done some producing, that I can do. But acting for me, I'm pretty sure I don't know how to do that. I really don't want to go through a process of trying to figure out how to do it. I think as soon as you start acting that realness of you that people love is gone because you're pretending to be something else on screen.
Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
You can't live on planet rock 24/7, you have to get down and dirty and have some fun.
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.
We have also sound houses, where we practice and demonstrate all sounds and their generation. We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter sounds and lesser slides of sounds. Divers instruments of music likewise to you unknown, some sweeter than any you have; together with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet. We represent small sounds as great and deep; likewise divers trembling and warblings of sounds, which in their original are entire. We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices of beasts and birds. We have certain helps which set to the ear to do further the hearing greatly. We have also divers strange and artificial echoes, reflecting the voice many times, and as if it were tossing it; and some that give back the voice louder than it came, some shriller and some deeper; yea, some rendering the voice, differing in the letters or articulate sound from that they receive. We have also means to convey sounds in tubes and pipes, in strange lines and distances...
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
On Slipknot: They sound like Tre choking on a hairball.
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.
Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.