I’ve always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song.

My point is, I don’t see the need to eat animals. I love animals; besides the horrible stuff that’s put in meat, I actually love cuddling with animals and petting them and stuff.

My drummer is my favorite drummer in the world, and he also happens to be the funniest person you‘ll meet.

Look, one of the things that I know for sure is that none of us truly knows. That’s it. It’ll hit you later.

There’s a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial success with another artist, but for me, they just felt really whack.

I don’t think we’ll really know what’s going on until we enter the next dimension and all that.

Never let your fear decide your fate.

You don’t put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you’re doing or you’re standing for something artistically.

I don’t know that I can say what exactly love means to me because it would be hard to put that into perspective.

My point is I’m kind of an outlier. For whatever reason, the success still blows my mind – that I’m able to talk to people about the music I’ve written.

I was in a hardcore band that had no melody, no chance of finding any success, and I was just trying to figure out what the hell I was going to do with my life. And that came out and changed my life forever – on an artistic level, and a lyrical level, for sure.

The older I get, the more I realize that you don’t have to be around people you don’t want to be around, and you don’t have to be in a situation you don’t want to be in. You have the power to rise up and leave.

I really love music and I want to make it better the best I can.

If you’re waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own.