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.

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

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

My music is music that Christians and Catholics can listen to. Muslims. Buddhists. And non-religious people as well. It's just music. You can look at the music in several different ways. It's music for everybody.

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