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

Never take a person away from the music they love.

The main reason we understand what we're doing is because we're the individuals doing it. One of the things that surprises me is that all the songs are about me, and it's cool that people care.

I think everything in life is an evolution, isn't it?

We intentionally didn't want to release anything when we were very young, I suppose, because we had a lot of foresight. Stuff can come back to bite you in the ass. Know what I mean?

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.

Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy