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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very incredible visual things where, in order just to make one chord more lethal, I'd make it a really lethal looking thing, whereas really it's just going to be picked normally.

I'm not a good guitar player.

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.