I took one piano lesson and hated it and then didn't take any piano lessons until I was 18.

Obviously it always takes longer to finish an album than you think it will. That's always going to be the case. Everything takes longer than you think it will. Occasionally things happen fast.

It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years for the ideas to be gestating in your mind.

It took me some time to join the various streams of making music that was technically good and making music that made me feel good.

At some point I decided I didn't want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next mountain there was to climb was Van Halen and I didn't really like Van Halen.

'Unbelievers' was a song that we felt like we could tackle, so that's one of the reasons we wanted to start playing it live, we really believed in that song and we still believe in that song a lot.

We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold?

I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the person who hears the song.

We thought there was also something that was humorous but at the same time powerful and deep about naming the album, 'Modern Vampires Of The City'.

None of this is your fault, ' I told him. 'None of it. You aren't responsible for what other people do, good or bad. Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.

Words are drops of blood, from my heart.

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

Team spirit spurs me on. I've always found it easier to be strong for other people than for myself.

Black is not a color.

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair

Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.

I don't think it's necessary to go to any game to make a stand just because you are there. The stand is made from the heart, and you can do that in the grocery store.