Three years between records is longer than average. Double albums are much more of a statement. I really wanted to put myself out there as much as I possibly could.

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.

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

When I read about myself and how writers have focused on negative stuff, it hurts my feelings.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

I've already had a hard time dealing with some of the trappings of success and turned to some pretty stereotypical escape routes - ways of escaping my own reality and falling into some pretty clichéd situations.

Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.