I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

Really I don't know anything other than Jersey. I like the dirtiness of it. Now I'm getting to see the world, and it's great, but it's not better than Jersey.

There's lots of bands where somebody will write lyrics and somebody else will sing them. It works for a lot of people, but that feels weird to me. I don't mean this in a bad way at all but it just feels fake.. I guess in my heart of hearts, whether the person has a good voice or not I want [the songs] to come from them. I don't know why.

I feel like with everything you do, everything you make, everything you experience, y'know, even the dumb stuff that you don't even really pay much attention to, like the mundane stuff that happens to you every day, it shapes the person who you are.

I'm a big proponent of letting songs tell me what they wanna sound like.

It's always awkward to pretend to play. I feel like Ashlee Simpson. Oooh, zing.

I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there.