My mother, father and brothers (I was the youngest of three boys), were all very sarcastic and we were a complete Irish-Catholic family. We didn't talk about our feelings ever, and if we did, we were yelling about them - there was no in-between. That's just carried over so many ways in my life and sabotaged relationships, sabotaged creative stuff.

I'm still learning, but I can see there are decisions in life that are going to be very challenging and it's always better to get through them, always.

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.

It does feel really good to sing songs about somebody that I really respect, admire, love, care about and am so passionately attracted to after all this time.

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

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

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