I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

When someone has a very urgent response, I think it just means that it's triggering something in them that they may not necessarily want to think or talk about - which I see as a positive thing.

In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.

It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it.

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.