It’s not easy to ask… asking makes you vulnerable.

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

I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Take on the pain and wear it as a shirt.

I feel like if I were to play the game completely and just get myself in a giant bottle of nail polish and put myself on display, I would feel like I had somehow cosmically lost. I feel like I'm taking a bunch of the ingredients and using some of them but not all of them and shuffling around and making people think I'm doing my job.

I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.