Somebody who knows all about how to make the record, or how to make records, they know how to work the EQ and they know how to work the stuff, but they don't know what I want it to sound like. So it's just easier for me to do it myself.

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.

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.

It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.

To be told that you're the voice of your generation is such an incredible amount of pressure, and I haven't faced that. Maybe by the time our third record rolls around, I will. My goals are to be a band like that in five years. At the moment, though, I can't really relate in any sense to the scale that Kurt Cobain fame has reached.

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

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