I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.

I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.

A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.

To be honest, because there's loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road.

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.