For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.

A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person. If this person makes you feel good, then they're a person to be around; if they don't, they're not. Being in a band is different. The group is the more important part, and you have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with.

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

The nice thing about being on stage is it's not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I'm up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.