I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.

Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.

i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away

In a way, to have whatever people talk about as "crossover success," I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when I'm flipping through the channels and see the VMAs or something, I don't really see any music there.

If there's ever a kid out there that can't afford to buy the music, I still want them to hear it, and hopefully they'll go to the show, or buy a T-shirt from the band. That's the idea.