They say what doesn't kill the soul will make you stronger, but you can't be a stone-hearted man.

I deal with everything in my life in music - everything that ever happens to me just finds its way into a song or onto a record. I need it. It's like my life jacket. If I didn't have that way of processing those feelings, I'd probably be a murderer.

As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.

For me, making music in general is a therapeutic process. It began as a way for me to meet friends, and when you're a kid just screaming your face off, you're processing anger; you're processing all the things that happened to you, whether it's mistrust or confusion, whether you've gone through abuse.

I got really lucky when I found somebody that I want to be friends with forever.

If you start getting yourself into just doing stuff for the money, even if it's a desperate situation, I just firmly believe that if you stick it out through that, then something right will come down the path.

I can't imagine anybody in my life I've been more vulnerable with than my wife.