I remember coming in to the studio and meeting Barry Manilow . I was kind of star-struck. He said, "I want to play you this song." We get to the end ….

I could write all songs all day long about what I think about the music industry or music in general. Sometimes I gotta be like, "Let's write about s….

Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed by ….

Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing..

Love changes us, but we change how we love too..

There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficul….

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right..

There's nothing like a great piece of theater - a great performance in a great piece of theater..

Doubtless there are other roads..

No one's going to shoot at me..

It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!.

If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I find inspirat….

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday..

What so wild as words are?.

Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others..

We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble..

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid..

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do..

When somebody tells me I cannot do something, that's when I do it..

I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long ….

Better to have something to say than to have to say something..