Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

I created a paradigm by which I could succeed, and up until recently it was the only way I could do it. I could not take the brunt of standing in the light of my own work. There was a Faustian bargain I could not make. I could have you mock me for wearing funny clothes that I could deal with. But I couldn't deal with actually standing in the light of my own musical power. That's the difference now. It's like, okay, no more of that, you're done.

Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

At some point, you protest too much they think you're guilty just because you're protesting.

Like any form of death, at some point you just have to get up and say yeah I'll take it, whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen and sorta chop your head off. It's easy to avoid all that...there's always another moment, another girl, another high, another drug, there's always something to distract you.

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.