I just reached the point where I realised, I need to stop repeating myself if I'm ever actually going to enjoy the music I'm creating.

In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.

I didn't realize how different our band's senses of melody actually were. I would write a part that just made perfect sense to me, but for them, it was mind-boggling. Likewise, they could play stuff with relative ease that I never could have. If there was something lost in translation melodically, it wouldn't work at all - we'd just be 17 people in a giant room staring awkwardly at each other. When that happened, I'd go home, figure out what was wrong, fix it, and then return to smooth sailing.

I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.

I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.

I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.