But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

I'm not really thinking about what I'm talking about or what I'm willing to achieve. I'm just kind of letting it come out, recording it.

Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.

Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.

Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.

When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.

Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.