The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension..

One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made music th….

I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that Grammy/MTV kind of stuff is t….

The Grammys thing doesn't even touch my world at all..

I always feel like the less I think of stage presence, the better, because then I have to face the fact that I have really complicated guitar parts, ….

I'm the kind of person that, as a listener, will go the extra mile to interpret something that's fairly meaningless, or that might be meaningless..

I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order to get something that sounded like a s….

Another cultural thing that's really creepy. It's not like in the '60s, where there were definitely great high points of creativity where people were….

Who's got the most heartbreaking voice? I don't know. Tough question..

Tim [Omundson] is just so wonderfully delicious. He has the sexiest beard on television. He's such a fabulous actor, and a great character..

There are a few artists that I'm really into. I mean, I'm a big Nick Cave fan. And there's a band from Australia called Big Heavy Stuff that's one of….

To say someone is a producer... it's kind of a slippery term..

Because as much as I love figuring out other people's puzzles, and love putting words together in ways that feel good to sing and sound good together….

It's sort of a fine line where you're dying to express it and then hoping no one really gets it that closely. But I'm pretty much over that. I'd real….

One of my favorite things as an engineer is watching a band get comfortable in the studio and getting a great take. Like, they're playing the song, w….

You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we're in the more your support group dwindles and you start s….

I think, then, there's the sort of, like, political dimension to lyrics. One of the problems that I've had with my output as a lyric writer is that I….

I think Supernatural is the last WB show that's still on the air. It came from The WB and transitioned to The CW. I've been with The CW from the star….

I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap..

I worry about financial security, and the older I get the more I worry about it..

For most of the projects I've worked on, I've been entrusted with some degree of musical responsibility, even if it's just like coaching for vocals a….