Things always work according to their nature..

Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the….

Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw in a few cover songs like Enya's "Water….

We do have to learn poetry at school. Poetry is interesting to me, particularly Chinese poetry. It's like an ancient form of song. There's five sente….

I won't ever stop until you're either the biggest thing around, or you're dead..

Stop fearing being attacked..

How can we live without the unknown before us?.

Take the Long Way Home is a song that I wrote that's on two levels - on one level I'm talking about not wanting to go home to the wife, 'take the lon….

There's no other like Leo..

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank can….

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could..

You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the f….

To me, there are 3 parts of the album process: writing, recording, and my favorite part: getting to sing the songs with the fans every night..

It's just a blessing. Artists search and search for songs that will connect for a new artist because the familiarity is so low. People don't know wha….

I think my philosophy on music is sort of like the difference between religion and spirituality or religion and faith. There's a lot of bullshit in t….

Suddenly I burst into song: 'Awe, sweet mystery of life, at last I found thee...' And I felt so good inside and my heart felt so full, I decided I wo….

I like the songs to appear very simple and to flow by without any kind of hiccup, but there has to be this impression of other currents underneath. L….

The whole first two-thirds of the I Just Can't Stop Loving You song is just he and I. He's singing lead and I'm doing all the harmonies and we're bot….

All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal..

Michael Jackson really turns my life and changed my creative process as well. "Keep On Loving You" really honors him and honors my relationship with ….

I never wanted to grow a thicker skin; I felt a real sense of pride in my thin skin, and in a weird way, I still do, because it's my thin skin that a….