I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.

There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.

The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.

It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.