When I read about myself and how writers have focused on negative stuff, it hurts my feelings.

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

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

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

There are just some things that you can't deny.

For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.

Nobody really wanted to do that one European tour. For one, it was budgeted to lose money. They would've made something, but I would've lost a lot of money.