Don't say yes to everything. Learn how to say no, because people respect a no.

Radio is so cutthroat, but I do feel like the music industry is structured so differently than it used to be. I'm amazed and in awe of artists who can build a parallel universe that's so big and clearly defined that the mainstream finally has to pay attention.

When you meet someone, a friend, who's living out on the road, or living semi-homeless, or leading their life in a radically different way, it makes you think about your own life in a really critical way and feel completely disoriented.

I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn't been making money. Labels are signing bands they trust as artistic entities, instead of cash cows. They're signing bands because they believe that the bands have tastes beyond anything they could concoct themselves.

No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.