My mother, father and brothers (I was the youngest of three boys), were all very sarcastic and we were a complete Irish-Catholic family. We didn't ta….

I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked and I thought their opinions sucked..

When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have to be this thing where I ….

I deal with everything in my life in music - everything that ever happens to me just finds its way into a song or onto a record. I need it. It's like….

I got really lucky when I found somebody that I want to be friends with forever..

I don't think anything has changed about me but my priorities have changed. At one point I was living my life and I didn't see a direct correlation b….

For a really long time, I've been trying to find balance where I can talk about my feelings and be upfront with people, confront issues and not have ….

They say what doesn't kill the soul will make you stronger, but you can't be a stone-hearted man..

If you start getting yourself into just doing stuff for the money, even if it's a desperate situation, I just firmly believe that if you stick it out….

I would prefer that, rather than sitting down and giving someone advice, I would way rather write a song about what I was going through. I think that….

I'm still learning, but I can see there are decisions in life that are going to be very challenging and it's always better to get through them, alway….

It does feel really good to sing songs about somebody that I really respect, admire, love, care about and am so passionately attracted to after all t….

As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation..

For me, making music in general is a therapeutic process. It began as a way for me to meet friends, and when you're a kid just screaming your face of….

I can't imagine anybody in my life I've been more vulnerable with than my wife..

If you do the right thing, the right thing will come down the path..

I'm three years into my recovery from heroin and all this stuff and I want to be able to help people. But they have to do it on their own..