As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

I listen to hundreds of those hymns sung repeatedly over the years of my life. And I know that they probably influenced a rhyme scheme maybe to certain extent. They influenced the pentameter of placement of words, etc. And it's not something that's a conscious thing that occurred.

I don't really drink, but I've been around a lot of drinking and, at 18, when you start playing in bars, you start to witness the good, the bad and the ugly of alcohol as a source of escape. I wrote about it because I witnessed its use as a means of medicating - a lot of people using it to medicate themselves from hurt.