I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.

You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.

Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.

I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?