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.

I ran away for a couple years just to prove I've hever been free.

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.

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

When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.

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