Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.

I never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now, some people can find it elsewhere. Some people can work a job and find it some place else.

We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life.