As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.

I think I couldn't give myself any advice apart from just do exactly what I want.

Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.

When I was young I was one of those kids that got pulled onstage at a Green Day concert. That was pretty awesome.

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

We now live in a world where accessibility is paramount. So I think we just juxtapose that a little bit and maybe play the internet like a game because we don't like to be exposed as individuals, we like to be an entity.

I'm writing songs that connect to millions of people. And that happens for a reason. I don't really worry too much about people who aren't into it because that's the beauty of music. It's subjective. If every single person in the world loved our music, then that'd be weird.