I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.

Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.

Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.

As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, "Yeah, sure, I'll give it a shot!" It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, "Absolutely!"