I'm going to keep drinking on stage. I have a pretty healthy relationship with alcohol. I know how far to go and when to stop.

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.

I can only write songs when somebody gives me some water to swim in. Otherwise, I'm a fish on the beach.

I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.

When I have just sat down and tried to write the lyrics of a song, usually about half of it sounds like bullshit. I just have to go away from something and come back to it again later. I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.

Not all the songs are real events, but I do write about stuff that is close to my heart and it comes out one way or another.

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