I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs.

I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.

It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time.

There's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.