I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part – a lot of jumping from really quiet to really loud.

Id rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.

The casual listener won‘t be around forever.

Dream big, work hard and don’t be an asshole!

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They’ve thought of the steps that you‘re going to think of when you’re trying to create your thing. And that’s where the tools get invented to make better art.

I’ve been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

I feel really lucky to be in a band where the guys, for all the opportunities to do things that potentially would be good for them but detrimental to the group, that everybody stayed loyal to the whole.

We have people in the band who don’t drink or do drugs… some of us like to go sightseeing.

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can’t shake it off.

When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.

I loved Transformers when I was a kid.

I have a toothbrush, my toothbrush is sexy

I really enjoy it – it’s like a videogame on wheels. The GPS touch screen is one of the most entertaining things I’ve ever seen in a car. I still have a Range Rover that I don’t drive much anymore, because I started feeling bad about it.

You definitely pick stuff up when you go back and listen to older material.

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

Usually I spend my holidays with my family.

This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

I’d rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body.

global warming. every day i leave my house and think, “was it this hot last year?” the heat this summer here in LA and in most of the US has been unbearable. i can‘t remember another time when it was 105 degrees fahrenheit out here (40.5 celsius), and that’s the kind of weather we’ve been having pretty much every day.

We learned pretty early on in this band that you can’t have snobbery in music.

I have a BFA in illustration.

My parents still treat Christmas like I’m thirteen years old.

I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it – the music that went along with it.