I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

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.

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

Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

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