I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

There's so many inspiring people out there.

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.