Sometimes it's nice to be able to reflect on the music itself and then write lyrics that I feel anyone can relate to. It's not my dreaming tree that is dead. The feeling of a loss of hope is universal. There are moments that we've all felt a little bit of it, so I don't think it is something that is too hard to identify with.

First time I kissed you, I lost my legs.

In so many areas of life, I'm a spaz and incompetent.

Take what you can from your dreams, Make them as real as anything...

I don't feel like I'm standing in a position where I have some right above other people to say what I think. We should all be talking to each other about what we think is important - whether we're in politics, or whether we're checking out at a grocery store. We shouldn't put walls up between each other.

Everything good needs replacing

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.