I'm not Metallica, you can tell that I'm really not that angry in most of my songs.

If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it goes.

Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first.

I am definitely not listening to anything remotely close to my music, at least not on a nice day.

The first time I ever found Paste I thought somebody just might have finally made a magazine using only the contents of my brain. I read it cover to cover every single month.

If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time.

That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.