My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.

Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.

Sex is funny and love is serious.

I respect Chris Carrabba as a songwriter and I also respect his past. He's got this fierce, straight edge, kind of hardcore core. There's so many songs that people are connected to and they all came together in a kind of DIY way, which I really do respect.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.

I like people who have a pulse and aren't afraid to show it.