Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'.

That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before.