I always love to put hidden messages in my music videos, because I know there are people like me who, when they watch something, are really active, involved participants. I'm not usually a really passive listener or observer. So I do put those messages in there for people who spend a great deal of time [looking for them].

Learn to laugh at your problems, cause everybody else does.

If I was ever a teen idol, I’d kill myself.

A very common thing these days is people show up and they ask us in the band to sign with a Sharpie right on their skin and they go get it tattooed the next day. Then they'll show up at another show and they'll have their tattoo.

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.

Louisiana is a place that you escape, not a place that you leave.

I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.