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I like playing Michigan.
Actually I love asparagus.
The studio can be quite tedious.
I'm very picky about who we tour with.
I have some drinks at night but that's it.
I listen to classic rock for the most part.
Metal fans are the most hard-core, loyal fans.
I'm always working on multiple songs at a time.
I know the Lamb of God guys. They're way mellow.
Nothing in life is free, you always pay in the end.
I like Journey, Bad Company, Soundgarden and Aerosmith.
I wish someone would give me some money for doing nothing.
I did my solo thing for a while and got that out of my system.
Anyone who likes Static-X will definitely like my solo record.
But anytime at a metal show, fans are going to be going crazy.
It's cool that MTV is making an effort to support bands like us.
I'd stay on tour for the rest of my life if I could. It's awesome.
All of our records seem to capture a certain period of time for us.
I had a dream I was onstage naked and I forgot how to play the songs.
When you write, what's going on in your life shines through in the songs.
For me, if we're going to have a guitar solo, it needs to be over the top.
Pretty much every other question I get from fans is about my hair and beard.
I developed a really bad hernia. I had to cancel the tour and go have surgery.
Rob Zombie was White Zombie and I was Static-X. I wrote and produced everything.
All of my records have their own vibe, depending on what was going on in my life.
It gets weird with people wanting to touch my hair and beard boundaries, you know?
Over the years my voice has been destroyed from excessive touring... and I love it.
Chromamatic' is actually about changing the strings on my guitar and tuning my guitar.
My mom is about 60 years old and she loves our music because she can bounce around to it.
I've wanted to do a solo album since 2000 when I was writing songs for the 'Machine' record.
For singers and drummers, you've really gotta have your chops together just to do a rehearsal.
We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band.
You know, people hate me or love me and I just don't even bother paying attention to it anymore.
Obviously, we've proved a lot of skeptics, who thought we'd be gone after a record or two, wrong.
Don't even get me started about how much I hate the Internet, 'cause I'll rant for hours about this.
For some reason, I don't spend enough time getting to see my family because I'm always touring or working or whatnot.
I'm the opposite of a gearhead. I like simplicity. I use what works, and the only time I change it is when I have to.
Listening to Ozzy Osbourne at full blast always made me feel a little bit better. It made me feel like I wasn't alone.
My passion outside of music is that I am a total gear head. My wife and I own six vehicles, three of which are off-road.
Pighammer' is what I envisioned the first Static-X record to be; trancier, a bigger electronic vibe with more keyboards.
Pighammer' is my pure vision of what I want to do, but at the same time, if you like Static-X, you will love 'Pighammer.'
I'm getting older and I guess I was pushing myself too hard; we were doing six shows in a row and all that kind of thing.
You gotta give props to Ozzy as the creator of all evil faces. What would we do in photo sessions if it were not for Ozzy?
I just do not understand all of these guys that get married and then want to go spend all of their time with their buddies.
Obviously we're not Kiss, but we go out there and jump around like idiots and try to have a good time and entertain people.
Static-X has never been a band where the four guys get into a room together and jam and write songs and all that kind of stuff.
I don't like to do any editing on guitars. I think the more editing you do, it just takes away from the feel of the performance.
During the day I'll work on music. I have a sampler and a drum machine out with me and I write new songs while we're on the road.
We became one of those bands that could be around forever like Slayer. We can go on as long as we want to, as long as we have fun.
For the most part, metal has been underground. It's too dangerous for mom and dad and schools. It will probably always be that way.