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

I love getting out there and traveling and doing shows and all of that. But when I can be home, it's a special time.

I think collaborating with a DJ could be interesting musically and it's something that I'd like to get into down the road, but I think on the live show tip I'm sticking to my guns for right now.

I want to make new and interesting music out of pop music in a way that isn't ironic. I want to stay sincere to the source material but at the same time manipulate it and take it to a new world.

It's easy to hate on things that are close to your world that aren't exactly what you're doing.

It's rare when I feel like I can extract a lyrical message out of combining two things together.

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.