Some kid can say, "Hey, I really want you to play my town in Switzerland, or Sweden, or Latvia," and they could have a fun night at the show. On the other hand, all those kids could have a record that means something to them in a more personal way a couple months down the road. The live band is a really important thing for us, but my focus is on the album now.

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.

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

I think that when people download the record they're kind of missing out on part of the experience, because it's really meant to be an immersive experience.

I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us.

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

There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs for myself, or for the world. And it's hard to stop the machine. If you want to take time to write a record, they're like, "OK, tour through March, April, and June, then you can take a few weeks off to record in July before getting back on the road for the European festival circuit." After a while, I had to put my foot down.