The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poig….

My dad and I get into it all the time. He loves to discuss politics much more than I do and we have pretty heated conversations..

If you're 14 and you're skinny, you can't be on the football team, basically. It's just not even really possible. But skating is something that you c….

I was a regular dork. I was a kid who was scrawny and all that, and probably kind of dumb or something. I wasn't unordinary; I wasn't extraordinary..

Horrible dates are when you're with people who are immature and can't really be comfortable in their own skin..

I really know so little about recording, and I'm learning as I go..

There's something artistic about skating. A psychologist could tell you exactly why that is, but I think there's something much more expressive that ….

I kissed my first girl when I was 15, and then I lost my virginity when I was 17. So that's pretty good. It was just that when you're in high school,….

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffe….

I think that was going on with bands like The Strokes was that the idea of the band, a real band, was making a comeback. My brother in law is an exam….

My extended family is very political and very polar with each other, and it's put a bad taste in my mouth. All the rhetoric going back and forth and ….

I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it..

I think that what's funny is that I seem to be taking up the roles that I remember my dad having - for some reason, I'm the one who makes the coffee,….

Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy..

I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise..

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can..

I'm not really excited about the idea of committing to anything permanently..

I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking abou….

I've never gone through an audition process or anything. In most of my decisions like that, I just kind of feel it out: You know, do I feel comfortab….

There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterl….

The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone ….