I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.

I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on the radio is like, "Listen to me roar!" or "This is my fight song!"

Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.

You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault...

I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind I have always seems to slip my mind.

We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.