I'm just going out there doing whatever it takes to win the game, to help my brothers out. It's not me against one other person.

You should never put another man in front of you and say he's better than you.

It's all about winning matchups.

I don't think about yardage.

It's one of those things when you're down in the red area, a lot of teams double me. Two-man, guys sit underneath me, so I can't really slant. They have a safety kind of cheated out, as far as the fade balls and things like that. But when we get our opportunities, we've got to make people pay.

I've got to keep showing up every day and putting in work.

I got to go out there and catch the ball, be more of a deep threat.

The player I am, if I drop a ball, keep throwing it.

Everybody has to be accountable on every play. The main thing is that we have to do our job. Going through all of the keys, making sure we are making the right reads, blocking the right person and getting the right route depth. Everything.

Every receiver should feel that he's the best. It's all about confidence.

Appointments' is largely just derived from pieces of dialogue with another person, and then also what's going on inside of my own mind, or a person's own mind. They're intended to be a little bit exaggerated and a satire of things that we're not sure are entirely true, or maybe biased.

When I am writing alone I try to just write for myself without thinking, like, this will go on a record.

The thing about music is that it gives voice and names to anguish and also addresses how to comfort it.

Some shows feel very reverent - when you're in a seated theater, no one really sings. I love it when people sing! I wish people would sing all the time. Because one of my favorite things when I get to do as a musician is step away from the microphone and listen to everyone sing together.

If 1,500 people are gonna see me and they each pay $20, I want to give them everything that I possibly can. They just made an exchange that allows me to live a dream of mine since I was a child. And that's not lost on me. So I want to expend every ounce of power and energy I have.

I feel really privileged to have gracious and merciless people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life.

I had a lot of fear about coming out as a kid.

I feel like it's a necessary part of musical development to go through that phase where you think that your favorite style of music is the only style of music, and I thought that for a while.

My parents were always playing records: My mom was really into the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac, and my dad was more Billy Squire, Whitesnake, '80s hair metal. But I think there's that crucial point where you become an adolescent and you don't want to listen to your parents' music.

Music and musical instruments were proximal to my life from very early on - I took piano lessons for a brief time, but then my dad had a guitar and when he was not playing it, I would pick it up and mess with it. He jokes that I used to complain that it hurt my fingers.

There's no musician who just wakes up one day and decides, 'This is what I want to do.' It takes some development.

Ultimately, I feel like there is just a pervasive evidence of God. Though I know that is maybe a controversial thing to say.

My parents wouldn't let me listen to 'American Idiot.' So it felt very rebellious to go over to my friend's house after school and listen to it in secrecy.

There is something familial about punk. There is something positive. Even though some punk is destructive, nihilistic, explosive.