I'm lucky enough that people tend to agree a lot with what I say. But really if anyone in the band has a really strong feeling, it carries a lot of weight.

You can be for something and still be damaged by it.

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

The road does not always bring out the best in people.

I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now.

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly.

Racism is a worldwide problem.

A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.

I dislike Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that... It's not like I'm going to change anybody's mind.

I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out.

The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.

What is the nature of human beings? When someone does something wrong to them, they will go after him [to punish, to fight].

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What tho' we wade in Wealth, or soar in Fame? Earth's highest station ends in 'Here he lies;' and 'Dust to dust' concludes the noblest songs.

I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.

I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.

And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again.

The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

I tend to pick on the people I'm closest with because I know they know it's not personal.

Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.