I'm living in a world where there are LGBTQ straight alliances at high schools. I feel pretty psyched on that.

I'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sounds like L.A. people writing country music, because it's just a list of stuff: 'My pickup truck and my cowboy boots and my Levi's jeans and my girlfriend with the short shorts.' It's so boring!

I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing.

I think open adoption is a great idea, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you."

I've always talked a lot on stage - I really wanted to communicate my ideas and when you're playing at a lot of shitty punk clubs they don't have good PAs and so no one knows what you're singing about.

If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point.

What usually happens with me is that I start with one idea in mind and then something else happens.