I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.

Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel the need to unload on strangers. That is not the case. It also assumes that I just talk about myself the whole time which, again, is not true.