I feel like everybody knows the world isn't the happiest, most peaceful place. And though everybody has an idea of what's wrong, we're not changing it for the better.

There are bands now, and for years, that called themselves emo. I never followed that stuff.

I have an aversion to conformity.

I don't listen to my own stuff unless I've been drinking a lot.

Almost everything I do, especially later on, is really very scripted. And I do it over and over again until it's perfect.

Even when I am forced to conform - we all are on many levels - that line is definitive. It says exactly what it means: Be an individual, you know? Be yourself.

I feel like everybody knows the world isn't the happiest, most peaceful place. And though everybody has an idea of what's wrong, we're not changing it for the better.