The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.

The whole point is to discipline the mind.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

Life is tons of discipline.

But I know for a fact that had I had a father, I'd have some discipline. I'd have more confidence. Your mother cannot calm you down the way a man can. Your mother can't reassure you the way a man can. My mother couldn't show me where my manhood was. You need a man to teach you how to be a man.