I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

You can't be a band and not play, and playing is so invigorating. It breathes life into you. So does creating something out of nothing.

I'm a promoter of masturbation. Don't sleep around...learn yourself first! Guys do it, but girls don't. They should.

Once I got to an age where I was old enough to make my own decisions, I quit everything and did what I actually wanted to do, which was start a band.

The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.

I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up; I watched more films.

You write a lot of bad songs before you write good ones. It takes time!