Words and music together create powerful, powerful things.

In the end, when you're writing a really good song, it strikes the right tone.

I've tried to write songs for other people and it usually requires them singing it and then changing the phrasing. I can put a lot of words in a song, and one of the reasons is, I'm not that good of a singer, so I don't hold a lot of notes.

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

You can either go to the gym because you want to lose weight, or you can go to the gym because you like how it makes you feel when you're running.

Sometimes people come up and say, "You have this line in this song and it meant a lot to me." You don't always remember that line as the one. You're putting part of your human being on the page so people are going to have different responses - the other humans are going to connect with different parts.

You can think of a number of bands where the first record is by far their biggest record. And that must be hard for people to recapture. Hard for people to live with.