The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

People get upset and it becomes an excuse to treat other people a certain way,but if you really step back, you realize what you've left behind.

I think that people get outraged over things. I think what we really need is a kind of borderline extinction level event to get people back to caring about what really matters.