The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

I always find live shows on film kind of boring. Even my favorite ones, I kinda zone out for most of it. It's just so different seeing a band in the flesh and then watching a film of it, even if you have a hundred cameras and it's shot from every angle. There's just a communal, visceral thing that never translates very well.

Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?

When I was younger, bands helped me connect to part of my humanity; bands that had nothing to do with anything political helped to form me. There's a correlation in that: If people can connect to music, maybe they can connect to each other.

I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.

Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay.