I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one.

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.