I feel like I write about life and love and death; it's just what I gravitate towards.

Maybe one day a song might make you feel completely different than the next, but I like to have a lot of everything in my songs.

We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.

We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that.

If the lyrics have meaning to it and it gives me a certain emotion, I think that's the most beautiful part about music - you can feel it and connect to it.

Music for me is very therapeutic, it's very cathartic.

I tend to use my music as therapy, in a way.

There are so many layers of bullshit and everything sounds the same.

If someone says something good or bad, or whatever they have to say about your song, you've just got to embrace it.

I think a lot of what I do musically is about juxtaposition and contrast.

Missing your loved ones is really tough.

Be as good as you would want to follow yourself.

The world's a fascinating place right now.

I like to work around identification for the audience, and when there's a grown-up or a moral figure or something like that, people tend to go there.

God's Heart is especially tender toward the downtrodden and the defeated. He knows your name and He has seen every tear you have shed.

I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.

Everyone just needs to get over themselves.

All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.

I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human.

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

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