You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity..

I like how blogging emulates fandom because it's so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that flu….

The school systems at my childhood had enough money or enough parent involvement that they felt like learning music and songs, and exploring the whol….

I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself..

Just invest in apps. Just download apps and then pay yourself the dividend..

I think a lot of the intention of bands, especially in the last year, is to spread themselves out geographically and borrow from different cultures a….

I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal,….

I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary..

Florida is such an unlikely place for a band, unless you're an emo or hardcore band. In terms of the touring route, or even the way the geography wor….

If your whole world of a band or music is taking place in a digital realm or on technological devices, it's all mediated through those things. That t….

We brainstorm an idea and then we do flesh it out a little bit - we come up with a script, mostly to have beats and a sense of a story and a narrativ….

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why….

I think grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it transform you. What will sit within y….

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do..

It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous..

No matter what people are struggling with, or based on whatever. Sexuality, ethnicity, economic status, size. I don't wish smallness for anyone. It's….

Twitter is sort of version of labeling, except with 140 characters instead of a labelmaker. It's the way of calling things out for what they are, wea….

With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform ….

I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots o….

Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty..

There was this kind of wackiness that was really embraced and put on a pedestal. It was before the millennium. We were envisioning a future that was ….