Some people, they don't want to be that loved, they don't want to be that involved, they don't want to be part of your family. That's where the pain comes in. You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

You want to be influenced by the world because it has so many cool things about it, but it also has a bunch of bad things about it.

I know that is absolutely true for people when they are young - you don't want to be alive if the things that you love in your life aren't there.

Your life, unfortunately - and I mean this - your life is built on when love dies. There's a lot of love in your life that will simply die. And you wish that you died with it, you know? But you don't. And you go, oh, well, here I am.

Being around people who are happy and people who are creative, that's what you do if you're lucky in your life.

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

It is comforting to know that there is at least one place where we can go and be confident that we will find an audience thirsting to find new music. Paste Magazine is that place. It's loss would create a very large black hole.