I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

If you want to be noticed as a drop of water, why would you move to the ocean?

There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.