But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.