When I see friends of mine break up and they're like, "Oh, we still really love each other, but we just couldn't make it work," I don't get that. I d….

Blind hope. Blind hope is all we have. There's a Greek tragedy called Prometheus Bound; Prometheus is the [titan] that gave humans fire. He's chained….

Your obstacles define your achievements, and without those obstacles, you're just another bland nothing..

That's the great thing about being in a band: it's a gang for people who are too wimpy to fight. You can create a gang and have an identity and fight….

Getting up on stage and being able to make people feel like their lives are slightly more special than they realize is my only talent, so that's what….

For all of my life, I've had this one song in my head, and I'm still trying to write it. I'm still trying to get that song out. I'm getting closer, e….

People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent ... but th….

I think you have to make concessions in life. One of the most frustrating things about getting older is [you realize] the reason you have a plan is s….

We're going to talk about the big things that matter, which are the little things, really. For me, Stars has always had one overarching theme, which ….

My pledge to myself is I will believe in my music, always. I stand behind everything I do. If I don't think it's amazing, how the hell is anyone else….

I consider being a performer work. I come from a theater family; I've been an actor all my life. I started acting when I was a kid, and I've earned a….

We became a band that was kind of a big band, kind of a band that quite uncool people listen to, people a lot like me. I've realized that's a much mo….

I don't like saying goodbye to people. I find it much easier to forgive people than to say goodbye to them, I always have, in any facet of my life. I….

I'm not an endings person. I don't do endings. There may have been people in the band who wanted this to be an ending from time to time, but me and A….

I think people are naturally good, I see it every day. Look at this restaurant. No one's causing anybody any trouble in here. We're all sitting, resp….

Acknowledging that we lose is the overarching theme in everything in Stars. To me, that's what punk means. Stars is a punk band because we acknowledg….

I think if you listen to our records, they come at different points in your life. When people say to me that Stars records have themes, I think what ….

I'm not confident about my appearance, I'm not confident about anything really in my life, I'm a very tortured soul when it comes to self-confidence,….

We haven't really changed, we've just gotten better at executing what we've always been trying to do. We're not really a band that has undergone huge….