I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.

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

I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everything from heavy Catholicism to followers of Indian spiritual masters to Unitarian universalists - all in one family. Though the family aspect was stronger than any particular dogma.

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.