It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.

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

I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain.

And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings.

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

I've never conceptualized much of what I write about. Maybe, once I'm onto something, I'll conceptualize a finished record. I want the songs to tie together and make sense together. I'm not like, "Oh, I want to explore this idea." That's just not how the creative process works for me. It's more like something strikes me, or finds me, and then I wrestle with it after that. I don't sit back in my armchair, like, "What kind of philosophy can I explore today?"

The only thing major labels can really offer is money.