I'm most excited about going swimming and riding water slides, shooting off fireworks, and playing basketball, and things like that. That's what I really love doing. Summer is a great time.

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.

I do try to pick music that is from different worlds and typically doesn't flow together. When you do that, you get songs with conflicting messages, but for me, it's on a musical level first and foremost.

I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.

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.

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

It's hard enough to get things to work in a musical way.