When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions.

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.

Really, everything for me comes from "Manifestra." It was an incredible gift of a song; it really describes an important moment in my life.

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

The only really weird part for me was making sense of the person on the TV at the same time as the person who I am friendly with and do something so friend-intimate with as text.

So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.

I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!

I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.

Your success in life solely depends on you ATTITUDE towards everything that life throws your way!

At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.

Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.

I saw the lightnings gleaming rod. Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God.

You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.

Humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies.

If anyone tells you he is never afraid, he is a liar or he is a Gurkha.

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.