Bands-- enough with the crayon face-paint-- you're better than that.

If you live up against train tracks, it can make your life a living hell.

I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it.

Some people never need to let up at all.

I've dreamed about performing songs, songs that don't even exist, as a complete song.

I know that the dream mind is irrational, but I like to think that if I hear something in a dream that's really good, then it's irrational... but it's not crazy.

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.

There's a definite machinery behind everything that a band does, and sometimes it's hard to figure out how far to go in delegating certain responsibilities and staying COMPLETELY DIY.

I think I'd like to see CDs disappear. Too much plastic crap lying around. If I want some music these days, I'm gonna either get as MP3s or on vinyl.

I'm even old-school Instagram. I'm here for your "What did you have to eat today?" I'm fine with that.

You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing. And usually that translates back to you.

Stand up for your beliefs, and be different.

...I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk...

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.

I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.

You can fall in the area of your strength as easily as you could fall in the area of your weakness.

I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.

It matters, like this: I belong to Malvern, you don't.

I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.

Tortall and the Queens Riders!