The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.

In wrestling, people just throw each other around, possibly actually bleed, and are still friends in the locker room afterwards. But there's a real glee - a feeling goes up in the arena, especially on non-TV days. If it's just people in a room and somebody starts to bleed, that's very exciting.

If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

You're not really going to know what a place is like 'til you've lived there a few years - you sort of just have to go with your gut.

You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.