I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

Now I know I'll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I'm finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever. But that makes sense: feel someone else's pain, feel someone else's everything.And he's my baby, so everything's okay.