And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings.

Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him.

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

I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

On good days, I can see the inherent goodness in people, and that human beings have a high capacity to learn and adapt. But things like the environment, nuclear weapons and ideas like peak oil - if you think about them too much, they can really freak you out.