I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.

You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

I crave music that'll sort of hurtle me into space and release me up there.

If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.

I think taking too long to work on a record you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as I can; it's just this manic phase where I'm by myself and or on tour and I write and I write. And I send them to the guys, and we start planning our studio ventures.