Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.