Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into

I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.

For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.

I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul