For a moment there I convinced myself I had my back against a wall, and suddenly the only wall I find my back against is that of a 10 by 10 writing shack in Glendale, where the summer days average between 90 and 100 and each song can be quantified in the sweat it took to write it. There is no ac in hell, and sometimes you've got to get down to get up. The train is gaining speed I should think.

I think that's the most important thing: when life kind of screws you over a little bit, you've got to learn from that experience.

I'm Doctor McMahon with a Ph.D. in sweet-ass rock with an emphasis in set list creation.

No matter how solid or structured or set you think you are, there is, you know, a very thin line keeping us all from sort of chaos, in some perspective. And you know, I don't view that really as a negative thing at all, but it just is the truth.

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

I like to watch people have fun and then trip them while they're doing so.

The present's just a pleasant interruption to the past.