I tend to be the one that breaks the mold most often, and thus, I tend to be the one with a lot of outtakes, songs that don't make the record.

I want to be stereotyped. I want to be classified.

The most visceral expression of emotion in music.

We want to mentally be young, even if physically we're not.

Once it stops being fun, we won't be able to do it anymore. People are going to know that we're not having fun, and we're going to know that we're not having fun. So at that point, it just ends.

The two things that matter are the desire, and being healthy enough to do it. Everything else to me is a non-issue.

I don't want to live your dream. That's your dream. Go ahead and do it. But it's not mine.

Part of 'Beyond The Music' is also the notion that no matter what came of us, or the band, the most important thing for us ended up being the friendships.

I still think punk's around. It's been pushed into the mainstream and it gets harder to draw that line between what's pop and what's punk.

I've never written a song about DNA or anything that I work on. But I just think that DIY aspect, and the creativity and the belonging and acceptance is what drew me in.

By focusing your thoughts on the things you are thankful for, you attract more things to be grateful for into your life.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

And grade every simile and metaphor from one star to five, and remove any threes or below. It hurts when you operate, but afterwards you feel much better.

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

I think I was always interested in darker characters just because there was a lot more to do.

To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things, Christ did not come. Christ stopped at Eboli.

Someday you'll have to show me how you did that," Asharak was saying. "I found the experience interesting. My horse had hysterics, however." "My apologies to your horse.

I don't debate with liars.

Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.