My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.

The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.

The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

I hang my laundry on the line when I write.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.