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

A person with grace is somebody who's socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.

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.

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

Music has got a community vibe to it that pulls people together, and those communities are different in different places.

Once you do have a child you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends and it should be.

Weirdly, I was still trying to be the older brother, and trying to get him [Tom Berninger] to try to be more like me a little bit. Or not be more like me but... I was frustrated that he sometimes let things stop him in his life, and he let the wind get knocked out of his sails a few times.