Music is one of the few things I'm relatively good at, one of the things I understand a little better than everything else.

- Michael Angelakos

I mean, I am a little different from the band in that I, I'm pretty much an isolated writer. I don't associate myself with a lot of other writers, un…

- Michael Angelakos

People think that since we're on a major label, all of a sudden everyone's telling us what to do and it's really not like that at all. They're just s…

- Michael Angelakos

I hated the blog hype and how fast everything was happening. It didn't feel natural to me. But at the same time, what's more natural than thousands o…

- Michael Angelakos

I don't think people talk about mental illness a lot, but they need to know it's OK to talk about how they are feeling. People are afraid of telling …

- Michael Angelakos

I became really creative around the time I started understanding that people could be creative with music and that that was allowed. I stated taking …

- Michael Angelakos

I think there are things that need changing obviously. I think there are things that I think we overdid on the first record, I think there are things…

- Michael Angelakos

The minute you feel like you've completed something you lose that momentum. I've learned how to avoid that. That's the bottom line.

- Michael Angelakos

I just desperately wanted to be happy again in a way that wasn't forced. I wanted to feel like I accomplished something. I did this. I finished this …

- Michael Angelakos