I've never gotten in too much trouble with alcohol. I've never had a drinking problem, really.

I was used to hanging out late after playing a gig - you mix adrenaline with alcohol and you can stay up all night.

People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it.

I've been known to just pass out instantaneously, like, anywhere.

I use a lot of humor in my writing. But it's completely black humor.

Maybe I'm biased because I'm from there. It's close enough to New York but it's not swallowed up by New York's hustle and bustle. Philly's busy enough. There are tons of record stores and record-head friends and plenty of D.I.Y. shows. It's a place where people pass through and bands don't usually skip on tour. There are lots of music resources but it's not too over the top.

There's downtime in music, which obviously is necessary or else you'd lose your mind in other ways, but if we're on tour and there's electricity from the audience, if you're getting a good response, then that's the positive side of the mojo where I could feel cocky and just know I'm doing good and then there's a time all of a sudden when you're alone and you just don't know if people will like it.