When you're playing for 30 people and you're jumping around stage, screaming, getting in peoples faces and acting cocky you're kind of poking fun at yourself.

Nowadays when you buy music its like you're donating to that cause, because you most likely could hear it in some capacity for free.

That's something I've always been down with: creative commons and people being able to license their music and allow other people to reuse it and recycle it.

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're saying.

In 2008 it's easy to get huge before you have an album out with the Internet. I think that's great and you see a lot of artists like that. It seems like it's becoming rarer to find a band that has been touring for six years, doing small shows and then breaking out.

When I'm performing, this is what everything builds up to, and everything has allowed me to be here.