I've never fit in in any music world. I've always been an outsider. I mean, the fact that I live in Indiana - I live in a fly-over state... I'm not running away from anything, that's the problem. Most people go to cities because they don't like where they come from.

I'm not a nostalgic person. I'm not nostalgic about much of anything.

To say that we're doomed is just an obvious remark.

Check it out, forgot to say hello to my neighbors. Check it out, sometimes I question my own behavior.

Ain't that America, home of the free? Little pink houses for you and me.

His frustration running very high, he takes it out on the ones he loves because it's safe.

Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive.