Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.

To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.

Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.

I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.