I'd rather let the music speak for itself.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'

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.

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

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.