Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.

Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.

Then one day a thought clicked my mind... and even theweirdest event in the past start Making complete sense...

I've had some pretty awful jobs that I don't miss, like working on a nightclub door, or compiling VIP lists at 3 A.M. in the morning, but sometimes it's just got to be done.

Trust is such an important principle for me. I want to believe in the best of each person, and some time back, I have experienced that trust being broken - which shook me to the core.

Who needs sleep? I laugh in the face of sleep!

The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.

I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.

I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.

When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.

I really am a strong believer that with editing, it should take a long time. Even you yourself are not capable of making the right decisions; sometimes you need a distance.