I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

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

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.

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

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.

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.

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