From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.

I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.

I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.

I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.

Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let that happen to you."

When I became conscious of being a person, when I was very small, I knew that I was from Indiana, but I had never seen Indiana. I was born there, but we moved when I was, like, a year old. I always had a sense of a place that was far away from where I was. I would research it and find out about it and I remember on Christmas morning I used to always call Indiana to find out what the weather was like; to see if it was snowing or not.

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.