We have the ability to attract and repel at the same time, which I think you should embrace. Otherwise, you're just going to be, like, this Neil Diamond act.
It makes us feel normal when people think we're being too arty or whatever.
Growing up, I learned the value of sticking up for my brown-skinned friends amongst my white-skinned friends.
I gravitated towards Jim Ward, because I knew he was totally into the work aspect of being in a band.
I wanted to be Paul Stanley or Gene Simmons.
Rock bands are not exactly magnets of functional people.
I had 8-tracks when I was a kid.
I'm a video store guy. I like thumbing through things and holding them.
I personally never trusted the audience.
The kid in me has ADD.
I have definitely had a big impactful change since 2010, and it's rough to look in the mirror, but it's such an important thing to do that.
You know Bad News, 'The Young Ones?' I learned not to spend a buttload of money on a sixth member.
I like to think I take care of my body a little bit more, I'm not screaming as much.
To be involved in the subculture of punk rock puts you in a minority.
It's too bad that the idea of witchcraft and sorcery is a taboo subject matter.
You come to a point in your life where you don't want to just keep repeating yourself.
You want to embrace what the idea of pop music is. Not necessarily the stereotype of pop music; there was a time when you'd say 'pop music' and conjure up images of the Sweet, or Marc Bolan. That, to me, can be avant-garde still.
I have cancelled shows before for knowing full well that my heart was not in it at that moment. Why? Because its an insult to the audience.
All I can do is move forward with my music and just be happy that Mars Volta ever happened at all.
At The Drive In came out in a period of time when Stereophonics and Limp Bizkit were huge. And there was this dark grey void - I'm not saying we filled it - but we were just a different colour at the time.
