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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.