I had a wacky job driving a forklift for an air freight company. That was the worst.

The real reason I was lo-fi before was really just because that's what I could afford.

Even when I played in little league as a kid, I liked making friends, but I didn't want to be there, really.

'Street Legal' is like a cult classic. It's pretty cheesy at times, but you learn to embrace it.

Humor is important. Nothing against bands that are always a downer, but the reality is - it just becomes theater.

If somebody else wanted to do a song for McDonald's, that's up to them. I wouldn't do something like that, but whatever.

I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked, and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it, and you can really just over-think everything.

Love is intense, and sadness is intense.

People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it. What am I gonna do?

I proved myself with 'Smoke Ring.' It was me maturing. I made a good pop record.

I had a really fun time working with the HARRYS guys and their whole crew.

I think 'She Drives Me Crazy' is hilarious and good.

Everybody goes up and down throughout their lives.

I've been known to just pass out instantaneously, like, anywhere.

I've got an amazing family. My wife is really smart. She's guided me the whole way. With children, you see them grow up, so it's like you're forever young. They are totally innocent and so unjaded. Watching them grow up makes you go through it again yourself.

I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once you start playing, it all just gets resolved.

I just try to make as much money as possible. However I can do it. With as much integrity as I can have.

My favorite kind of song is the most beautiful song that you love so much and it's so good it makes you want to cry a little bit. Any jam can sound like that on a certain day.

The last blue collar job I had, I was 29. Even 'Childish Prodigy,' I had a day job that whole time. Those early ones, they feel like psychedelic, blue collar records. Especially 'God Is Saying This to You,' there's such urgency in that album.

All of my surroundings influence my songwriting. It's autobiographical, although I leave enough space so it's relatable.

Critics always get the lyrics wrong in reviews, which is amusing - especially when they use them against you.

I'm joking all the time with my friends, even when we're talking about serious things.

When I was a teenager, I was mostly getting tapes and CDs, and somebody hipped me to the fact that you can get things on vinyl that are not necessarily available on any other fomat.

I get to come home to my family. It's awesome, just constant adventure, never a dull moment. So much life.