I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture - I thought inspiration would just hit me and I would get these San Francisco drugs in my system and all of a sudden an amazing record would come out. But that's not really what happened at all.

I don't know if there's anything that would surprise people, because I don't think that anybody knows anything about me at all. There's not much out there. I think I'm going to come out with a pretty dark and troubled record, and it might upset some people.

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.

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

I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.

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

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.