I think teenagers just don't have the persistence to pretend to like something they don't anymore. I used to do that - make myself like stuff that didn't immediately appeal to me. When you're 17 and checking out John Cage records from the library. It's not like it's got the hooks of a Ramones record, or a Beach Boys record. But at the same time, you're like, I know there's something in here that I'm supposed to understand. And then eventually you find it.

In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations.

Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.

I think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about.

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.

Unfortunately it's hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music.