I feel that part of my life's artwork is creatively dealing with all this negativity and anger and rage and hatred coming from whatever corners it's coming from and somehow manifesting all of that anger into something positive, which is such a hard job.

I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.

I've always felt like an outsider across the board, since day one. The challenge has been to simply not pay attention to my outsider or insider status and just do the work and play the shows and connect with the people. And not even bother to play this game of keeping score, which is what destroys you.

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

I hate being ignored.

The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

When you trust people to help you, they often do.