I didn't want the lyrics to be about specific things in my life, I wanted them to be about generalised experiences I'd had. So when I'm writing about relationships or somebody leaving you or something, a lot of lyrics are partly about failed relationships I'd had, but they were also about my Dad, and being abandoned as a kid.

To be told that you're the voice of your generation is such an incredible amount of pressure, and I haven't faced that. Maybe by the time our third record rolls around, I will. My goals are to be a band like that in five years. At the moment, though, I can't really relate in any sense to the scale that Kurt Cobain fame has reached.

I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.

For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.

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 so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.