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

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.

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.

Rise to the occassion which is life!

Anyone with great ambition, great vision, and great passion can be a great person.

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.

Albert Einstein didn't care where he lived. Albert Einstein was a genius. Albert Einstein wasn't getting lost in the master bedroom, he was lost in thought.

This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.

I've been writing songs since I was a wee child.

Anything in excess is a poison.

I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing

I really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction.