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.

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.

Generally, I think people are just going through the motions now. There's so much stuff that people are doing today that has already been done. I kind of like that new Savages record, but I don't know why they take themselves so seriously.

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.

There's a lot of stuff that I've been through in my life in the past couple of months that I don't really want to share with people who are close to me, but I have no option if it's my art.