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I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.

I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.

Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.