A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. There's genuine excitement from people. I feel like we've stepped up a level.

L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.

No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

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

There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.

A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.