We wanted to wait until the music felt right. We didn't want to do it, just to do it. We didn't want to do it for money, I guess, is the thing that would have just bummed me out so much.

I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out in the grocery stores and restaurants.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

I'm very much a night person. Morning is a thing I only experience because I have to.

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

Any art that you are playing based on effort, loses something. I think that most of the time it should be something that happens, and you are inspired, and you just feel and follow your instincts. The best chiseled sculptures happen when the sculptor looks at the stone and says "I saw this sculpture in the stone, and I had to get it out." It's not contrived.

Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.