Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change.

Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times it's actually writing the songs and getting out of mind and into the song.

When you move like a jellyfish, rhythm is nothing. You go with the flow. You don't stop.

Careful living and correct training methods aided me a great deal, but I would say straight punching was the foundation of all my success.

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

To be part of a community feels really good - to be among people who have similar feelings and want to share thoughts. It's a nice feeling.

Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days, a few words will lock themselves into place. I might just get the first line. Then words just keep falling into the syllables. The choruses kind of write themselves and verses I have to work at a little bit.