Was the title of \Mr. Sensitive\ meant to be ironic in any way?
The song was unintentionally ironic. I had the harmonic riff in my head for five months. In my lyric journal, I had ”Mr. Sincere” written down, and sincere turned into sensitive. I wanted to write about something outside myself and get a little metaphorical. He lives in a village devoid of feeling. They get so afraid of this child who has feelings that they kill him. It kind of took on this Tim Burton-like, twisted vision of James and the Giant Peach for me. But I know people look at me as that sensitive guy. And ”A Daily AntheM” has to do with your brother [Adam, who is fighting cancer], who people learned about from watching Idol, right? ”A Daily AntheM” is three years old. I didn’t originally write it with the intention of it being about Adam. I just wanted to write something that had a John Lennon, ”War is Over” quality. Then I was like, oh s—, if you capitalize that letter and that letter and that letter, you’ve capitalized my brother’s name. You fit in with a style of r
