And rock being a male-dominated, testosterone-driven place that I've been in the eye of the hurricane now for several years, I realized that it can be a place that can perpetuate homophobic behavior unless it's addressed by bands like us.

The time that we kill keeps us alive.

It's not the end that I fear with each breath- It's life that scares me to death.

We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found.

How we survive, is what makes us who we are.

Every action has a reaction. We've got one planet and one chance.

Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in ways that other forms of communication can't.