MusicPix: I’d like to let you know that we’ve been waiting to talk to you for a long time as this interview was scheduled before your accident back in May.

Justin: Yeah, I was in a baseball stadium and I said I’ve got to run the bases! I wear a suit and dress shoes on stage, so I didn’t change into my tennies. I ran around the bases and hit home plate…and you know how the sand builds up on home plate? Well, I slid and heard my leg go ‘pop-pop-pop-pop’- I broke my fibula and tore my PTL, LZL, MZL and I’ve had to sit on my butt…I’ve gained all this weight cause I’ve had to be at home and I can’t work out.

MusicPix: We’re just glad that you’re vertical and performing…but we’re wondering if something positive resulted from having to take a time-out as your new album started blowing up?

Justin: I’ve gotten to spend a lot of time with my wife and I did a lot of physical therapy of course…and actually I got to sit and watch it (meaning “Foiled”) bloom and blossom and didn’t have to do anything…it was the first song that I’ve written that actually did anything. I’d always heard about it. It wasn’t like we were busting into cities saying “hey, we’ve got a new album and go buy it.” It was me, just sitting at home, watching it and it was like WOW, look at it take off. I got to watch it on Fuse and on VH1 and I said, ‘honey, this is pretty amazing. I’ve got to get back out there.’

MusicPix: Did you write during your recovery?

Justin: No, I did not write at all. I played the piano because it just calms me down. While my wife made dinner, I would just jam on the piano…it was awesome. I came up with a few ideas. I’ve been asked to write a song for this movie called “Trade”…a film for Lion’s Gate Films. At first, I was really excited but then they told me that Bob Dylan, Tom York from Radiohead, Billy Jo Armstrong from Green Day are actually writing also…so all of a sudden it was ‘Oh God!” So I’ve been working on that specifically.

MusicPix: I want to talk about “Hate Me” as an apology and we assume your mother was one of the recipients of that apology. What was it like to have her on the set and included in the video after you purged all of those feelings?

Justin: It was a great release. My whole life, I’ve always been the guy who writes songs about as bluntly honest as I can. Having my Mom in the video was just so true to the fact. To me as an artist, I couldn’t have had anyone else do it. It was just so brilliant. There were so many issues that I had to go through, like drug addition, that my Mom had to go through with me and all that stuff…there were really some awful times. Awful things that I did to her and in other relationships by simply not caring. It gets to a point where you forget. And finally you come up above water one day and no one is really there anymore…I was 28 years old at the time, and it was time to get my stuff together and start proving myself. In a 12 Step Program, one of the steps is admit, apologize, and confront the people that you hurt. So this was me skipping a bunch of steps and going right to the core because I’d already been through so much hell. That was my main reason for making the video that way. I didn’t want a video that was ‘boy does too many drugs, girl leaves him, end of story. No, I wanted to show that your Mother could die while you’re in an alley and you’d never even know. The director was an amazing man and I was honored to work with a director like that. I didn’t have to say anything, I just sat back and boom… He got the treatment, he got the vision…normally I would be like ‘ddddd…this has to be changed or that has to be changed.’

MusicPix: It’s really a beautiful visual representation of your feelings. I’ve got a six year old son and he’s really into the song-he’s sings it all the time. But I’m not crazy about the word hate. I work hard to

The Answers- 1998
1) The Answer
2) Two A.M. Lovesick
3) The 21st
4) Breakfast After 10
5) Italian Radio
6) For My Brother
7) Sweet And Somber Pigeon Wings
Weaknesses
9) Blue Sunshine
10) Mr. Blue’s Menu
11) Darkest Side Of Houston’s Finest Day
12) Tomorrow
13) Black Orchid

Consent To Treatment – 2000
1) Retarded Dis-figured Clown
2) Independently Happy
3) James
4) HRSA
5) Breakfast After Ten
6) Balance Beam
7) Holler
Schizophrenia
9) Drop
10) Conversation Via Radio (Do You Ever Wonder)
11) Angel
12) Libby I’m Listening
13) Amnesia
14) The Answer


History For Sale - 2003
1) Ugly Side
2) Clumsy Card House
3) Razorblade
4) Calling You
5) Chameleon Boy
6) Sexual Power Trip (One Big Lie) Bla Bla
7) A Quiet Mind
3 Weeks, She Sleeps
9) Inner Glow
10) Somebody
11) Come In Closer
12) Amazing


Argue With A Tree – 2004
Disk 1:
1) Amnesia
2) Independently Happy
3) HRSA
4) Drop
5) Sexual Powertrip
6) Clumsy Card House
7) Blue Sunshine
Balance Beam
9) Quiet Mind
10) Inner Glow
11) Ugly Side
12) Black Orchid
Disk 2:
1) For My Brother
2) Breakfast After Ten
3) Calling You
4) Italian Radio
5) Somebody
6) Razorblade
7) Chameleon Boy
James
9) Amazing
10) Weight Of The World
11) PRN
12) Come In Closer
13) Untitled


Foiled – 2006
1) What If we Could
2) She’s My Ride Home
3) Into The Ocean
4) You Make Me Smile
5) Hate Me
6) Let It Go
7) X-Amount Of Words
Congratulations
9) Drilled A Wire Through My Cheek
10) Sound Of Pulling Heaven Down
11) Everlasting Friend
12) 18th Floor Balcony
13) Overweight

I touch the tongue to see a devil's face in front of me.
A sad man in front of me.
You blow your nose then cry and the clown demands a sad goodbye.
A sad man, a sad goodbye.
Black below the tree, white horses dead in front of me.
A sad man in front of me.
A scar below the cheek, where there's a sweaty man with a bloody sink.
A sad man, a bloody sink. So,

(Chorus)

It's just a trip not a way to ease your pain.
(This is not a way to ease your pain)
Self help. Tell another shrink the same damn thing.
(Listen for the way to ease your pain)
Stay cool, everything is gonna be okay.
(I think it's rather time to ease your pain)
Until you decide to drop again. Until you decide to drop again.

A blue jean girl to be, and still the sweaty man is behind the trees.
Behind the trees.
The flip side of sanity is the game. I'm 14 million miles away, I'm 14 million miles away
away from sane.
The dark man in the restroom window pane who's words just pour out human pain.

(Chorus)

It's just a trip not a way to ease your pain.
(This is not a way to ease your pain)
Self help. Tell another shrink the same damn thing.
(Listen for the way to ease your pain)
Stay cool, everything is gonna be okay.
(I think it's rather time to ease your pain)
Until you decide to drop again. Until you decide to drop.

drop.
now I'm so high, so high, so high.
So I, so I decide.

'Till you decide to drop again.
A carnival ride through trip again.
Until you decide, until you decide, until you decide.
'Till you decide to drop again.
A carnival ride through trip again.
Until you decide, until you decide, until you decide.

It's just a trip, not a way to ease your pain.
Self help. tell another shrink the same damn thing.
Until you decide to drop again.