I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I don't want to refer to my life explicitly. I'm definitely really embarrassed by my lyrics.

I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.

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

I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!

My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.