There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a way to ride it out so that they don't wind up needing extra help. So I think that "mental illness," as a term, is garbage. Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something.

From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.

Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.

North Carolina was on the vanguard of being for [ trans rights ], and that's why we're seeing this push back. The conservatives noticed that there had been a lot of progress and they tried to tamp it down.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.