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

The primary goal isn't a financial gain; it's to put out interesting music.

When I would play pop music at underground shows, it was offensive to some people. I wasn't doing it to piss people off: I just didn't believe in those strong divisions that you're supposed to listen to this or that.

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

I'll put out an album, and people review it, and some people love it, and some people tear it apart. By nature of the project, I've always wanted this to be something where people react strongly to it.

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.

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