Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.'

The entire secret to the world is some drummers can play with click tracks and some can't,

I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.

I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't play, so sometimes the palette feels too big.

The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.