I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in

I don’t think it’s important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don’t really want to be anything in particular.

So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.

I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not. But like when I see a movie, for example, that I really like, that moves me or whatever, it's usually happy and sad at the same time.

It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.