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

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

We worked very hard on that untitled record to do something different and that we were proud of and to try a bunch of different ideas. It was like this gigantic musical laboratory that we were going to every day. I love that record, I think that's one of the high watermarks of us as a band.

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

Hard work, studying and perseverance will get you no where in life......it's all about kissing ass

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

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.