With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.

To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

I think that because of YouTube, because of MySpace, because of the digital domain that we have on the Internet, the younger generation is much more open to information. I think it's so much easier for them to gain information and trade information, and they have become more aware. In some cases, more aware than their own parents and adults, as to what's going on in the world. I find that really intriguing and interesting, and I think there is a brewing of a whole new generation of activists coming.

Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.