The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

You turn into this desperate dude looking for a shred of attention when you just had so much. It's like, "I'm just lonely and all I really want is a hug, but I gotta capture that in something real gross." You start to understand why circus clowns are alcoholics.

It's insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, "You could run off with me right now!" I'm like, "It's cool, I think I'm gonna go read."

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.

There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.