I can still see that row of one-room shacks,

I love the word 'juxtapose,' ... I like balancing words together like cruel and gentle, sad and beautiful. Life is not all black and white -- it's shaded.

Ever wanting. Ever longing. Never-ending blue, ... So I'll take the inspiration with the gloom because usually where there's a tear, there's a tune.

Everybody was telling me, 'Man, that's your dream job,' when I got the gig with Bob, ... I know I'll never play better songs than I did on those tours, but for me, the ultimate dream is playing my own songs.

When all that 'pretty boy' stuff started, I was like, 'Me?', ... I thought of myself as a weird-looking freak. Kids used to punch me in the face just for the fun of it.

I was so broke. I was just trying to keep it going, keep the band going and writing all the time. ... I had written myself into oblivion, ... I had gotten to a point that I was very proud of and that I thought had depth, but no one wanted to hear that.

We were trying to nail this one song, but the feel was all wrong,