I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.

I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.

I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

It's really easy to end up on the 'Daily Mail' if you put yourself in situations where you'll end up on the 'Daily Mail,' and it's really easy to not if you don't do that.

I don't like having to be pushed into a box.

I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.

At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.

I just don't think it's good to be around too much creative energy other than your own.

Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.

Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.

I want to come and play in cities and states where transgender citizens are not discriminated against, where there's no hateful bathroom bills at the shows where I'm going to be playing.

I've been touring through Texas since I was 15, on my first tour ever.

Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.

My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.

I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.

I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.

Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.

I've gone down to the Jersey Shore every summer since I was born. It's like a second home, and Asbury Park is like the capital - it's the center of all of it. Musically, it's incredible.

Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.

Bleachers comes from a different place. It's personal. It's just me putting myself out there as myself. It's very intense.

If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'

I'm 30. I'm not that young, right? I'm not, like, 24 or 22. I'm no longer in the phase of my life where I talk about everything as in the future. Like, I'm in the future.