I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

How do I stay humble? Because I'm the best at being humble.

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.