“Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.”

Ian MacKaye was in London while I was living there. We both decided that even though we had very different lifestyles.

I didn’t think I was going to have to do three, but the idiot kept getting reelected.

I got my influences from 70s bands – Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, blah blah blah.

No, we have to support our local artists. It’s just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

Ministry is just ZZ Top with technology.

On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I’m back

Trump represents 30 percent of right wing ideology of white scared people.

I like the collaborative effort of working with people.

There were dinosaur big bands, and that was great. Those were my influences.

Art is commenting on what’s going on around you in your life.

It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

He is making all of the white people scared only 3 out of 10 people really believe all the stuff that is being said by him.

It was the worst night of my life. George W. Bush was reelected, and then I knew

These idiots like Radiohead and Sharon Osbourne that are like, “Free Ozzfest!”, “Pay what you can for a record!”.

The label’s going great, because we’re not idiots. We’re not trying to sue everyone that downloads everything.

This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.

Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

The more you tour, the better the band gets, and you get caught up in a lot more things than just traveling. It becomes a way to survive.

We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.

When you start getting into a full-band, democratic context the little things almost immediately get thrown out the window because you don’t think they’re important.

People always – when you rise, whenever you’re getting to a point where you’re a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren’t going to like you.

I’m my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

You wouldn’t be a complete band without a slightly cocky frontman, would you?

I’m a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we’ve been in many bands.