Even when other people don’t expect a lot out of you,you have to take the initiative.

Music is split up now into little pockets.

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

Cool to me is following what you believe in.

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.

I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.

Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing.. . and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.