Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.

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.

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It’s a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I’ve always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I’ve always loved it and I like how those words sound together.

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

When I listen to Airplanes record, it takes me back. I remember a lot of my thought processes when I was 20 or 21, writing those songs and recording that record. I wonder what I was thinking when I was trying to say a particular thing. I hear some of the weird little nuances in the recording; I can hear what the room sounded like. I remember what it smelled like. I can remember sitting up in guitarist Chris Walla's bedroom and for the first time in my life having this realization like, "Maybe I can do this. Maybe I can make music that in some capacity people will enjoy and come see me play."