There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.

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

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.

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

What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.

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.

I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.