Caitlin Cary and I were always talking about X when we talked about whiskeytown, before it became an actual band. We like the concept of there being no real front person in X, yet this kind of switch up of vocals and really their sheer power, and their ability to sort of bastardise punk rock and midwetsren rock and even country into their own sound.

I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M.

I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records.

Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.

I've gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don't have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else.

When You're young, you get sad, and you get high.

It's hard to be bipolar and bicoastal at the same time.