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…

- J. Robbins

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…

- J. Robbins

When I run across something that feels like a real eye-opener, it's gonna have an influence on me forever.

- J. Robbins

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…

- J. Robbins

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…

- J. Robbins

I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer.

- J. Robbins

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

- J. Robbins

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.

- J. Robbins

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…

- J. Robbins