Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

You have to open up on stage.

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.