My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.

Being an evil dude: You create this false identity of who you really are and hide behind that as a means to deal with your peers and to hide behind your social awkwardness and inabilities and inadequacies.

I'm not going to hide the fact that I am a happy person.

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.

When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.

I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.

We live with the things that we do to ourselves and others in doing what we've done to ourselves.