There are lots of people in the world whose existence doesn't revolve around American culture.

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.

We don't have T-shirts with my face, but there I can see the beginnings, especially young girls seeing me as sort of a icon in that way. And in that regard I'm more than happy to step in.

I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My great obsession and basically the bane of my existence is caring probably too much about every word, but it's too late to change my career path.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the television and their parents are just probably yuppies who focus their entire lives around the child. The child has no sense of context, no sense of what world they are inhabiting-just like this Disnified bag of Cheerios reality. Don't give them a @#$%& pill! God! Take them out on a canoe already! You know what I mean?