I'm always very interested in playing in front of different kinds of audiences. It always affects the way you play.

I think it's good that opportunity, like circumstances, can really affect what you do and you have no control over it.

Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.

Most bands, when they sign with a major, are from an indie. They usually start off with a big dilemma. They think they're selling a part of their souls or they're losing control over an aspect of their lives or something.

I never write a tune before the lyrics. I get the lyrics and then I write around them. Some people write music and the lyrics come along and they say, 'Oh yeah, I've got something to fit that.' If that's the way people write songs, I feel like you might as well just go to the supermarket.

I've never really been interested in replicating the record in live performance, because I'd just get bored. When I was young I used to go and see bands and, even if it was my favorite band, I'd get bored after twenty minutes.

I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.