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When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.

I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.

I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.

When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

From a guy that still doesn't have his foot in the world, I feel pretty grounded as long as I have music.

Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.