It's very expensive to bring a band to New York.

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

I'm sure as I progress the sound may get cleaner but right now, I'm still interested in having it rough but never overwhelmingly so. I consider myself an amateur pop songwriter and I want that to come through, too.

The distance thing is partially due to the fact that I'm pretty shy and I've struggled with extreme stage fright in the past. So I just have to go onstage in a different head space so I'm not as self-aware.

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

I'd like to thank myself, and congratulate myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.