I guess I do feel the need to repent. I do feel like I owe the world a great album. I don't know why I feel that way. I just do.

Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...

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.

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.

It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made.

The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just words, and stuff that I've written.

I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.