I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that..

A lot of the bands I loved, I didn't know where they came from or where they were going..

Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder..

I was part of punk's second generation, so, not the first wave of '70s punk, but the American hardcore scene. I had a really strong love for music pr….

I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like tha….

It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band could be or what a song co….

I think I took a few stabs at writing socially conscious lyrics. I had never intended to write a song about the Gulf War, but when I wrote "Before Yo….

I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up..

It sounds a little cliché, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened to music that actually took me places..