Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life.

There was something in me, even leaving fifth grade, that hit me and said, "I have to get out of here. I don't know where, and I don't know what else I can do but I'm really not going to end up like any of these people."

You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.

Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there.