My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.

We never really set out to talk about California on the album ['California'], it was something that we noticed that was happening about three-quarters of the way through the recording process. We were looking at which songs we thought would make the record and we realised that there was this theme coming through. I think it's just a product of being in California for as long as I have.

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.

No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

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