I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines.

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.