I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.
I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.
I just like being a social experiment sometimes. I really should not be allowed in public. But I just go out into the public just to see people's reaction. The thing is, I can do anything I want, virtually, within reason, just to see people's reaction.
I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind.
I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.
I also like to eat very much, so I like all different types of foods.
To see someone 70 years old with dyed black hair, you're like, 'Hmmm, I dunno. Is that a wrinkled teenager? What is that?' So at some point, I'm going to have to stop doing this. It's gonna look ridiculous. I don't wanna look like Elvis Presley at 60 years old.
Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs.
When I wrote songs like 'Everyone I Love is Dead,' I never thought about how I was going to execute them live.
I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.
Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.
Finding fresh song topics can sometimes be quite difficult.
I feel that I've grown up a little bit and I'm actually ready to settle down.
I find that different types of music are good for certain activities.
Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.
I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.
Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.
If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.
I just like being a social experiment sometimes. I really should not be allowed in public. But I just go out into the public just to see people's reaction.
One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.
