Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.

There was something in me, even leaving fifth grade, that hit me and said, "I have to get out of here. I don't know where, and I don't know what else I can do but I'm really not going to end up like any of these people."

No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.

Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.

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.

I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived there for three or four years and came back to the States when I was about ten. I realised that I'd gone from place to place not fitting in. The thing that helped me fit in when moving around and not having a ton of friends was that I could make art. That was the through-line.

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.