It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city.

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy.

All I can go on is my own value system.

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want...and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.