One hates what one fears.

Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am.

Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.

Everybody feels like [a misfit] at different points in their life. If you feel like who you are is right for you, then you are beautiful.

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.