A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

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 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.

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

I would say, if you're a musician then you probably have some capacity and some intuition. You've got to trust that intuition and be true to what compels you. There will be a lot of things along the way that will try to remove you from that, and if you do, then I think you are diminished. If you stay with it, then you have something that's real.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.