I'm making sure to cover all the bases. Like, I've always wanted a leather jacket like Michael Jackson's in "Thriller" since I was a kid. I'm trying to incorporate a lot of elements of pop culture that I've always revered or was really into when I was young.

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

Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

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

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

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult.