Never let your fear decide your fate.

I don't think we'll really know what's going on until we enter the next dimension and all that.

I would say it's always been in me to want to have victorious songs. I sort of want my songs to have a feeling of victory, but through a lot of pain. Like, you're 75 percent to the top of the mountain and sometimes you fall back to the bottom, but hopefully by the end of the record you'll feel like there's no mountain at all.

I can tell when something's real, or when something's put together. I can just feel it.

I've always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song. 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.

I've had the same core group of friends that I've always had. We're surfing, so that definitely keeps you grounded.

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