I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.

This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

I like a lot of hardcore, but it's just a genre about which I don't have much to say. It's kind of a thing where, unless you're active in the hardcore community, what could you have to say of value about it? It resists criticism because it's not just a style but an entrance into several different worlds of ideas- political, philosophical, societal. The music is really only part of the whole scene. In that sense, the music doesn't change much because it shouldn't: It needs to be there as a signal that you're entering into a certain discursive mode, maybe.

You're not really going to know what a place is like 'til you've lived there a few years - you sort of just have to go with your gut.

If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.