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

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.

I want to be the surgeon who cuts you open Who fixes all of life's mistakes I want to be the house that you were raised in The only place where you feel safe. I wanna be a shower in the morning That wakes you up and makes you clean I know I'm just the weather against your window As you sleep through a winter's dream