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"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."

"There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything."

"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."

"Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music."
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"We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there."


"We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again."


"Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse!"


"Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio."


"I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture ratios and all the stuff; I learned how to draw blood."


"I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words."
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