I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago. I don't know how to explain it.

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

I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.