There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.
When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.
We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.'
To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.
We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.
I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.
