I want the material I make to be mine; that's always the goal of the record and of the show.

Me and my friends would drive for eight hours to play for twenty people. That was cool, and if a couple of people bought t-shirts, that would be the greatest thing. We could go eat some hamburgers that night.

A lot of artists are used to their music being reused online and have come to accept and embrace it. You have a generation who go on YouTube and remake and remix music online all the time. They remake and upload songs and videos, and then other people remake the remakes; it just keeps going.

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 wanted to make experimental music out of pop.

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

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.