I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.

I think the songs are more about relationships that are endless.

Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.

With some bands, there's a fear that if people do other things, the band is going to change and not hold it together. That's kind of sad; if you love someone, set them free, right?

I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only appeal to learning more chords was having more chords to put into songs. I never got too wrapped up in becoming technically good. So writing songs happened pretty simultaneously with learning how to play the guitar.

Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.

When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.