For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!