Bringing the individual into it music only distracts from the universal and makes it trivial. And then it's easy to wash your hands of it because you might not be from their background, or you might disagree with their personal perspective. So you discount it and go back into your corner instead of coming out and engaging with everything.

I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

It's not like that when you're a songwriter - songwriters aren't like pulp writers or journalists, even. You just follow the muse. It's called muse-ic. Whenever the muse decides to bestow her inspiration on the songwriter, then the song is born.

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.