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.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.

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

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.