I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

You can take a picture of New York and one person looking at it will think it looks really depressing, frightening; and someone else will look at it and think of all the fun things you can do in New York. I think songs are kinda like that.

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.

Static in my head, the reflected sound of everything, tried to go to where it led, but it didn't lead to anything.

People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood.