Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he's somebody who I admire so much for putting the effort into inventing his own language and furthering it.

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.

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."

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.

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

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.