"For me, I think the thing that broke the camel's back was, I had enough of the money coming before the music. It's not perfect timing, but it had to be done, you know. For the sake of my own mental health and well-being, I had to do it."

"You know, the music really wasn't coming from the heart, I can say that on the record 'Transit Of Venus', there's maybe one or two songs that actually do come from my heart, but a lot of songs have been written just for radio and for fans, you know, to relate to. Quite a bit of it just adds up to the fakeness of the whole industry and how you're writing hits for other people and not yourself — and that's really what the band was, has been all about."