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

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 just rediscovered my guitar.

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 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.

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

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.