For Me, Songwriting Is Something Like Breathing:

I've Spent Most Of My Life Living In Cities Where People Are Obsessed With Looking Down On People From Everywhere Else. You Get So Used To Doing It That You Start To Believe It's Simply What Everyone Does. It Makes For An Atmosphere Of Unwelcome That Penetrates Much Of Our Modern Life. It's A Shame Really Because A Couple Days In Oklahoma Will Open Your Eyes To How Much Better It Would Be If The Rest Of The Country Was Filled With A Few More People From Oklahoma.

There's People Who Think What They Need And What They Deserve In Their Lives Is A Lot Worse Than What They Actually Do, So They Get Themselves Involved In Things That Are Needlessly Painful: Brutal Relationships, Abusive Relationships.

The Nice Thing About Being On Stage Is It's Not That I Know What To Do, But I Have A Very Clear Feeling That Anything I Do Is Ok. All I'm Up There To Do Is Express How I Feel. Any Way I Choose To Do That Is Fine.

I Can Remember Being Eight Years Old And Having Infinite Possibilities. But Life Ends Up Being So Much Less That We Thought It Would Be When We Were Kids, With Relationships That Are So Empty And Stupid And Brutal. If You Don't Find A Way To Break The Chain And Change In Some Way, Then You Wind Up, As The Rhyme Goes: A Murder Of One, For Sorrow.

You Have To Kind Of Shift The Way You Look At Life When You're In A Group Of People That You Work With. It's Not So Much, Do They Make You Feel Good When You're Around Them All The Time; It's How Can You Make Everyone Feel Comfortable Together.