I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from..

I can remember how I sang - a little more nasal-y back then. Listening to those old recordings is like seeing a photograph of yourself from 10 years ….

More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors..

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world..

I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyri….

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling fo….

If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about literature. I recognize al….

Keeping fans loyal is a delicate balance. Therein lies the challenge for any band that's more than a couple albums deep. It's like, how do you contin….

Every record we do there are always two camps. There's the camp that's like, "I love it. It sounds different than the last one." There are the people….

The Photo Album is the weakest record. For the first time in our careers, we found ourselves with an economic incentive to be on the road and to be m….

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines..