I've been producing records, and as early as my late teens, early 20s, I put out a hip-hop record and then the Ringside stuff. You know, I just feel like I want to spend these years realizing all of my ambitions. I feel like we live in an age in which you can chase your dreams with focus and a vision.

we live; we feel; we hurt. the world makes no exceptions.

Years later, you can hear a song, and it brings you back right to that moment, what was happening at that time, whether it was a relationship or a difficult time, or maybe a great time in your life, and you had that album you were listening to. Twenty years later, you can put on that song you fell in love to or your heart was broken to, and you hear that song and it brings you right back there. I think music is the most powerful tool we have.

When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

My tendency is to be the guy in the back, even though I often end up being the guy in the front.

My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.