The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.

I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous.

I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you're going to see your country differently, you're going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You're going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.