O: "I was a complete outsider in high school."

O: "I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end."

O: "You have to open up on stage."

O: "I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living."

O: "My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear."

O: "I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I'm falling asleep, like I'll go crazy if I don't do it."

O: "I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through."

O: "Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career."

O: "I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore."

O: "I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much."

O: "It's insane how quickly everything's changed. I always feel like I'm running hard to catch up."