People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

It's not so much a philosophy as much as it is a pace. We need to be personally involved with every aspect of the records including the artwork, we want everything to have a similar aesthetic.

I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.

I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around watching horror films.

Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.

Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."

The melody and the structure of a song always comes first for me, so the emotions behind it can sometimes be a challenge: What am I feeling about this song? Where did the melody come from? I want it to be heartfelt.