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.

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

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

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.