I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.

I think most people start rock bands in their early twenties or teens, but I was almost thirty at the time when the band started really doing anything and it took another several years before people started caring about us.

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.

I've never had so much fun being back at my job sitting in front of my computer. Compared to 10 months on the road, going home and sleeping in my own bed every night is really nice.

I have pit bulls barking at me on half of the love songs.

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.

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