The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.

I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.

Make yourself do something stupid so when you really do something stupid you won't feel so bad

I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die.

Everything in high school seems like the most important thing that's ever happened in your life. It's not. You'll get out of high school and you never see those people again. All the people who torment and press you won't make a difference in your life in the long haul.

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.