:: a brilliant point  of humanity

:: "One of the most brilliant points of humanity is when you take a complex situation, and describe it in a sense that's simplistic enough for people to grasp it very easily. That's amazing, really, and that's what I try to do with songwriting—I try to take a big subject and condense it down into something very simple, maybe just a phrase, or a line, or a couple of lines that says everything. That's a tough challenge, and that's what keeps bringing me back to writing music. It's never easy, which means there's always a challenge to come up with something new and different.