Whenever I go to shows, I end up looking at what shoes the guy onstage is wearing and the jacket he's got on. And when you know everything's gonna be under scrutiny, it makes you feel more comfortable if you have cool stuff.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

L.A.'s kind of, like, seven really cool towns. It's so laid-back. If you go in the right spot, you can walk around, and you don't need a car.

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.

The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get good at music, do something with quality.

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.