I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free

I cling to my memories of glorious desperation.

I don't wish to be anything more or less than what I am. If this is how it is, then so be it.

Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!'

When you see the Escalades and the Hummers driving down the street, at least in Los Angeles, this dry, flat desert with shopping malls, when you see someone driving one of those through this you're like, 'You are definitely part of the problem.'

For me the music is not so much anger as much as it is of passion. And I've always associated that kind of intense emotional output with music just because the nature of the music that's attracted me as far as live.

When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.