Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.

I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win.

It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.