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I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.