I think that every band is different, and in fact that's one of the biggest problems with the old-school music industry is that... one band would be successful according to a certain approach, and then every other band in the label gets sent down the same tube.

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

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

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.

Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.

[When I happen to] read interviews where people are such pros and they come out looking so good, [it comes off as] a little smug or something.

This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.