To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.

Sometimes it can be really exciting, but I avoid the blank page now. What I do is hand write everything. When you're hand writing, there's never a blank page, really. There's so much you can do with that.

I do a lot of research, I try to think about how it relates to music and I just do a ton of drawing. It's much easier to work your ideas out that way.

Well, I'm half Italian, so last year on Warped Tour I got this really good tan and I was like, bummer.

I had a couple of really cool friends when I was a kid, and we'd find cool music and movies and show them to each other. My friend Dennis had a copy of 'A Clockwork Orange' and he'd already seen it once, and he was like, 'We need to watch this.' I was sleeping over his house - and I think we were literally 15 - and we watched it.

Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.