For some reason I just started writing and out came this play. It's a series of monologs. All of the characters are from different walks of life. I have everything from an 18-year-old kid to a fourth-grade girl. There's not really a plot. It's about their reactions to how it (9/11) affected them.

I started writing it in 2002 and kept writing and kept writing and kept writing. This is a different version from the other two plays that we have done. The first year it was five characters. The second year it was six characters and this year it's seven.

I've always been somebody who wrote down my feelings and I've always liked to write. I never did any stories or poems or anything like that. I was just always writing down my thoughts.

Getting even is one reason for writing.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Writing this one was a whole process for me. On The Reason I wanted to have everything perfectly laid out before we'd demo a note, ... This time around we kind of demoed the songs and left them as skeletons. We let most of the songs' development happen in the studio. And some of the songs changed just a little bit. But others, they became almost unrecognizable.