Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

I don't want somebody telling my daughter who she can marry, or what she can do with her body. That's what was at stake.

We were always in the shadows of the stuff that was getting more attention. So people learned to listen to us slowly over time. And, frankly, we learned how to listen to ourselves. It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.

Somehow, you realize you can kind of do anything in music. You don't have to be good at a certain thing; you can just do whatever you want.

My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.