All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and go. And I have so much because of that, because it's what I've always done to pass the time and I like it.

I never really planned on playing music. But it was a thing I'd always done, since I was young. So it just carried me away; I never really had to make a plan for it or make any decisions. It just sort of decided on me. And I don't know what the hell I would have done otherwise.

If I'm working on one thing, then that's all that there is going on, and there's no such thing as a side project to me. It's 100 percent.

Performing to me is the most vital, most important. It's my favorite part of all of it. I just want to be on stage.

I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways.

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.