"I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs."

"And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music."

"Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world."

"I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure."

"For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration."

"A courageous heart knows that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song."

"Every artist was first an amateur."