People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.

We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.

War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

It just seemed like I would. I mean, I didn't know him on a daily basis -- far from it. But, in a way, I don't even feel right being here without him. It's so difficult to really believe he's gone. I still talk about him like he's still here, you know. I can't figure it out. It doesn't make any sense.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.