I'm particularly attuned to lyrics, and very often a bad set of lyrics will ruin a song for me, while my friends will be just grooving on the music. I don't mean that it has to be about anything in particular, but there has to be some art applied to it, simple or otherwise.

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm traveling toward light.

Most of the time, our deeper, stronger feelings are things we all have in common.

But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

Everything that makes a society run is broken in Iraq. The only real structure is the people's own sense of themselves as Iraqis, which was very strong. They're a proud people, and they trace their historic roots way, way back.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse, fashionable fascism dominates the scene.

The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.