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.

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 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.

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

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.

Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.

So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.

It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

I love making music. I never stop. I want to keep it moving forward. I like to go into the studio and make hits. It makes me feel good.

The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.