It's amazing what a haircut and forgetting to shave will do.

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."

I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got to sit down and write some songs with him, and that was pretty heavy. I listened to Our Lady Peace growing up. It got me through the teenage angst.

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

Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

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

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