The idea is: You played to 100 people this week in Europe, and then next week you can play to 200. It's an investment in that territory. But it can lose money because it's very expensive to go to Europe. You can't really just say, like, "Oh, we're gonna take our van and drive to California tomorrow." It's more like, "Oh, we have to fly to London and rent three guitar amps, a bass amp, drums; buy all these flights for four people; hire a driver."

What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.

I feel like every great record is like a world in itself.

Obviously there's so much about me on the Internet that you can turn against me, and you can make me into any person you want.

Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up.

It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut.

There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.