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.

Performing is one thing, and day-to-day stuff - like the way you talk to people - is totally different. If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

Playing a song changes a song. Every night a song becomes something else on stage.

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

Totally. I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular. You’re just enjoying it, and making something because you love it, and love the people that you’re playing with. I guess everything happens as a reason.

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.