Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.

I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

In my eyes, perfection is imperfection

We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.