I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

Desaparecidos try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.

I've never conceptualized much of what I write about. Maybe, once I'm onto something, I'll conceptualize a finished record. I want the songs to tie together and make sense together. I'm not like, "Oh, I want to explore this idea." That's just not how the creative process works for me. It's more like something strikes me, or finds me, and then I wrestle with it after that. I don't sit back in my armchair, like, "What kind of philosophy can I explore today?"

My Brother went to college To become a doctor And if he studies hard enough He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.

There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing else exists Beyond its own two sails And wooden shell And what is held within. All else is sure to pass. We clutch and grasp And debate what's truly permanent.

I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind I have always seems to slip my mind.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.