I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

I'm competitive to a fault, so of course every week I'm just like, "I want to win, I want to do great."

I think the future is whatever I'm willing to make it.

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

The further you go on the show, the larger the budget gets. But in the beginning they were just like, "Here's a hundred bucks in L.A. Good luck."

Some of the best rock shows I ever saw were those appealing to all your senses.