If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea

...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I figured out early on that you gotta find your own strengths and hone them rather than trying to emulate something that impresses you.

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.