I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

You are my sweetest downfall.

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

We're living in a den of thieves

Most of the time I don't even talk about any direct lineage of songs, because I feel like it just chains them down into my own consciousness, and the whole fun of them is being able to live in others' consciousness.

I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me.

Sometimes I make stuff, and even I don't like it. There's something about it that I don't really like, or annoys me. For whatever reason it needs to come out.