I never try and force-feed any song idea or lyrical message. It's really what's on my mind and what comes out of me. And a lot of these lyrics are metaphors for specific life situations that I've been through, and in most cases, the struggles. Something about human beings wearing sadness heavily on their sleeve inspires me to make something uplifting about the situation.

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If you're waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own.

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waiting-around chance winning

Look, one of the things that I know for sure is that none of us truly knows. That's it. It'll hit you later.

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knows looks

Let's say I'm at a party and I don't like the feeling I'm getting, I'll just leave. Why do I have to be there?

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party feelings

The older I get, the more I realize that you don't have to be around people you don't want to be around, and you don't have to be in a situation you don't want to be in. You have the power to rise up and leave.

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realizing want people

I don't know that I can say what exactly love means to me because it would be hard to put that into perspective.

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perspective would-be mean

I just find that with music I've always felt a sort of comfort."Paranoid Android" was the saddest song I'd ever heard in my life, but it felt so good - it was like, "Oh, you understand where I'm coming from." I was at a weird age at the time, in a hardcore band that had no melody, no chance of finding any success, and I was just trying to figure out what the hell I was going to do with my life. And that came out and changed my life forever - on an artistic level, and a lyrical level, for sure.

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age forever song

You don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically.

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standing people

The world's pretty trippy. I just like to travel around and see what's out there.

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trippy world

I can always be reminded how small I am when I try to surf a wave that's a little bit out of my league, and I just get pummeled. And, when your life flashes before your eyes kind of stuff, deep down under the water where you don't know what's up or down, and that kind of thing, or just Mother Nature reminding you how small you are compared to it. That's kind of the main thing for me.

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eye league mother

I just find that I enjoy the music that feels like there's a journey to the top of this mountain, then you're at the top of the mountain finally with this magical feeling, and you're stoked because you made it, and you're up there, but there's a little bit of sadness to think of all that you lost along the way to get there. I guess I relate and enjoy the path and the struggle very much. Maybe it's the competitive spirit in me.

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sadness journey struggle

My drummer is my favorite drummer in the world, and he also happens to be the funniest person you'll meet.

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my-favorite drummer world

There's a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial success with another artist, but for me, they just felt really whack.

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artist sides song

I've had the same friends I've always had. I mean, I've lost a few over the years.

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lost mean years

Coming from heavy music too, it's really hard to have heavy music not sound too butthead-ish or jock-ish, and there's a fine line between Limp Bizkit and Nirvana - there's a fine line there, and it's terrifying.

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jocks lines sound

You got to head north. It's always about going north, you know?

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knows

Videos are tricky because stuff sounds amazing on paper and it seems like it's going to be this mystical experience and you're going to look back and go, "Wow, that was magic." But more times than not, it doesn't end up that way, so I never know what I'm going to get.

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mystical-experiences magic sound

I have a lot of questions and I don't have that many answers. So what better place to exercise those thoughts than the lyrics, I guess.

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better-place answers exercise

Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar it's been hard for me to write some sort of bubblegum lyrics. It's not really ever been my route.

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guitar writing kids

I've been through a lot of ups and downs. I've been on both sides of it all, I guess. So there's not one specific event or thought that I'm dealing with or drawing from necessarily.

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drawing events sides

Trying to put music out there in the world is a pretty exciting, yet terrifying, thing and I've just been through the ringer.

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exciting trying world