Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.

I've experienced more sunrises with my bandmates and friends out on the road than with my wife, because we're always up at these strange times in the mornings trying to catch a plane.

When our world falls apart and we have no more faces to wear - that’s when it’s beautiful, and that’s when we change.

The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there.

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.

Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.

I have horrible acting ability. I can only be one thing and that's it. So for better, for worse, that's all I've got to offer is me. I've got nothing else.