Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.

I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to fifteen years later, and we're working on songs together. Ridiculous.

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.

We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

A real punk is punk on the inside.

I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.