I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.

It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and taken as very pretentious and serious all the time. I would think, "Do you not see there's a lot of tongue-in-cheek and humor here?"

...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I figured out early on that you gotta find your own strengths and hone them rather than trying to emulate something that impresses you.

Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative