When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.
People evolve and grow, and life is fascinating and fun and tragic.
I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.
It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered.
I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.
I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.