When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar.

I think this is the beginning of a really cool period in music because what we've been living through has been mostly super-testosterone rock, and there's nothing wrong with testosterone but it is damn boring.

We'd rather be a band that some people are going to passionately hate than be a ringtone band.

To be fair, I don't have a lot of clothes and you know, Einstein had the same outfit, five different times because he didn't want to spend energy trying to decide what to wear every day. It's pointless. I have a shirt that I wear when I'm not on stage and then I have a sweaty shirt that is so disgusting it would blow your mind.

The idea of it was I was thinking about how when you're a kid you get this unconditional love and you spend the rest of your life trying to find that, but you can't because everyone's in it for their own thing. It's kind of cynical.

When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar.