“I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way.”

Art to me is a question mark.

This question is posed to myself, am I a man who thinks he’s an angel? Or an angel who thinks he’s a man?

Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire.

The crack inside your fucking heart is me.

If you really feel hatred for someone, and kind of send it their way, then it’s out of your system and in their hands. I always think it’s therapeutic.

There’s nothing like the feeling of knowing that you’ve made a difference in someone’s life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

A lot of people don’t want to make their own decisions. They’re too scared. It’s much easier to be told what to do.

We don’t like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.

In a society where you are taught to love everything, what value does that place on love?

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

I have assumed the role of Antichrist; I am the Nineties voice of individuality and people tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you’ve got to listen to them first.

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.

The imagination is precious. Don’t lose it. Don’t lose the child in you.

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today’s youth.

Haters call me bitch, call me faggot, call me whitey, but I am something you could never be.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

I really like older British guys – I don’t think any of them would ever have a problem with crying in front of a woman or saying “I love you” or “You hurt me” or emotional stuff like that.

It’s very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don’t really have that much control with it.

I like to just make flex music. So when I do make emotional music, it’s hard for me, because I feel like I’m cliche. But I guess cliche is the best thing sometimes, because it’s real.

I’m not emo. I’ve never been emo.

For me, awards are a token of respect that people are giving me. So no matter how many awards I am receiving, I always feel emotional.

I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.