Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I like that dude!" It's incredibly affirming.

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.

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.

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.

I just started going to shows. I don't know how submerged I am: I feel guilty that I don't get out more, but I really like being inside the house.

Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.