I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining.

I'd been living out of a suitcase since I was 17 years old, and it just got to the point where it was ridiculous. Besides, it was really hurting everything I was trying to do in music; to feel so consistently homeless was no way to endure touring and stress.

I'm sure that's every adolescent's complaint about their home town. When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.

I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.

I'm very flash and burn - the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the best idea, and that's because it should come out of a natural place, and if you don't do that then you're writing someone else's music, not your own.

I do feel like my music, in some weird way, is probably better suited for cinema than for anything else - I can't really explain, other than I think that music has been mostly inspired often by soundtracks.

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