I'd got accepted to the seminary in Wisconsin, and I was gonna become a priest, but the last second I thought, 'I'll just go to public school.' I had just gotten a new amplifier in my bedroom, and I didn't think I was allowed to take it with me.

It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go.

A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.

You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.

A riff can take on the aspect of a chorus in a listener's psyche.

Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.

The big picture is a nice way to think of things if you have the freedom to.