I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap.

I'm the kind of person that, as a listener, will go the extra mile to interpret something that's fairly meaningless, or that might be meaningless.

One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made music that's people continue to take really personally.

When I run across something that feels like a real eye-opener, it's gonna have an influence on me forever.

Who's got the most heartbreaking voice? I don't know. Tough question.

The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension.

To say someone is a producer... it's kind of a slippery term.