I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.

I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed.

Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love.

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

Donald Trump is going to make punk rock great again.

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.