I grew up going to punk shows, that kind of thing - I don't wanna make pop punk! - but I like the idea of people going totally crazy and it being really intimate, loud and super-aggressive, but combining that with pop music.

I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.

I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.

I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment.

It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you.

I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.