Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.

I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, the music will speak for itself no matter what. So if you put maybe like 95% of your energy on music and 5% on playing out and telling people about it. That's kind of a good equation.

I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.

I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.

I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.

Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.