I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to sputter out after a hundred pages or so - an awful admission for someone who is trying to write one, but it's true.

I think the less individuality you portray... not individuality but like the more solidarity you have the better.

We've finished our debut album which has 14 tracks. We're very proud of the release and can't wait for people to hear it.

People think that atheists have nothing to live for, but that's not true - it's that we have nothing to die for.

I suppose I view my behavior in such a unique way. I frame it as an artist and maybe kind of make excuses for it. I suppose I romanticize my own life when I write. I always try to think whether it actually is quite romantic.

When you start becoming a pop star, you think, Hold on a second, maybe my life is different now - maybe all these people that I thought of as celebrities are going to be normal, and when I walk into a room I'm going to be really cool and so is everyone else. But that's not what happens at all - I was awkward, and then I just retreated from any social engagement for about a year.

There's no coherent stylistic genre specific advice that I could provide.