People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.

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.

We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.

I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.

It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!