I respect Chris Carrabba as a songwriter and I also respect his past. He's got this fierce, straight edge, kind of hardcore core. There's so many songs that people are connected to and they all came together in a kind of DIY way, which I really do respect.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

You probably became a musicians because you're into it so stay that way. Don't believe that someone else has the golden ticket for you because they don't.

Sometimes something will come along, and it feels easy and sometimes you'll get 85 percent there on a song and the last 15 percent will elude you for three years.

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.

I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.