I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want...and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.

I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.

Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.