We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.