I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.

As important as politics are to me, the life and the spirit of people's emotions are much more important. People live real lives where they love and grieve and feel pain and joy and that is a whole separate sphere. All that political stuff, I believe in it strongly, but not as strongly as I believe that at some point you or someone is going to need a song to sit with and comfort them in a hard time.

There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle.

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.

People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

When you know where somebody is, you know the most important thing about them.