I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they're twirling around me at the time.

More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.

Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they've just stayed true to why they play music in the first place, it's just because they love doing it and they love each other and that's the impetus for doing it, not trying to keep singles on the radio and on MTV.

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun.

I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.

Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.