I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.

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

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

When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.

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.

What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.