Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

I hated school . . . I freaking hated it. The fact is that it revolved around something you didn't have access to. If you weren't on the football team, if you were in the band, you were a leper. When people say those were the best years of our lives, I want to scream.

If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.

My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.