I've recorded at home since I was a teenager, and I'm able to sit here in my underwear and keep trying different things until something works. I think if I did that in a studio the engineer would be like, "What the hell is wrong with you?"

Going on tour, you don't have a lot of time to mull things over. You're just kind of, "Another beer, another show, another song."

I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it and I'm learning more and more everyday.

I hate living in a really small apartment, living in a shoebox, not being able to play the drums, not having space. It sucks.

I think recording at home feels more organic, and injects some more personality into the music.

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

[Juan Wauters] got the tips for Queens because he grew up there.So him and my roommate, Matt Volz, they hooked me up, New York Style.