The music was always the thing that has been in our world.Collection: Our World
Touring definitely makes you appreciate home more, so when I can be home, I like to stay home.Collection: Home
When I have time, I write other things. I'm working on a book, I paint, I sculpt, I play with my dog, I watch television - I catch up on South Park or movies or whatever I've missed, normal stuff.Collection: Dog
I'm spiritual but I don't practice any sort of thing.Collection: Spiritual
When I get off tour, I want nothing to do with anyone.Collection: Want
It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.Collection: Writing
I find comedy to be one of the highest of the art forms.Collection: Art
I think that me now, I wouldn't take a 16-year-old seriously in any capacity. "You're a kid, why would I listen to you? You're a child."Collection: Children
Where I'm at now is awesome. A different road might have led me to a different place, and I wouldn't be happy doing anything but music.Collection: Different
You can't be a band and not play, and playing is so invigorating. It breathes life into you. So does creating something out of nothing.Collection: Play
It's less frustrating if someone recognizes me for it [ Pretty Reckless ]; it's more frustrating that I still get asked about it.Collection: Reckless
I'll start with the Beatles, and I'll bookend it with Soundgarden.Collection: Bookends
Asking about acting to me is like asking about junior high.Collection: Acting
Good and evil exists everywhere.Collection: Evil
I go through ups and downs just like everyone does.Collection: Doe
Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.Collection: Perspective
Once I got to an age where I was old enough to make my own decisions, I quit everything and did what I actually wanted to do, which was start a band.Collection: Decision
I love all the '90s kind of grunge, and I love classic rock: That's where the spectrum lies.Collection: Lying
I paint and I sculpt and I enjoy doing things that aren't for the public. There's no pressure to it, it's just something that's a cleansing of the mind.Collection: Mind
I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships. I've got a couple close relationships with friends, a close relationship with my family, and a close relationship with my guitar. I'll know if the right person comes along, and whatever then - cool - but it's not something I'm seeking out at the moment.Collection: Couple
I have a knife collection. I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it. I close it and open it.Collection: Knives
Everyone likes to stereotype things or write them off as not that serious or "this is just a phase," especially when you're that young. The music was never a phase, but the wardrobe was certainly a phase, so I think that may have overshadowed the music in the beginning, for sure. I was so outrageous.Collection: Writing
I think the long-term goal is to continue to grow as people and as a unit, individually and together, and hopefully continue to keep making records that are better every time, because if you're not moving forward, you're either standing still or regressing.Collection: Moving Forward
I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it.Collection: Writing
Leaving stage with a bloody scalp, it's rock & roll, I guess, but I want some hair at the end of the tour.Collection: Hair
I hold the record for signing the most boobs in my band.Collection: Band
When you're touring, you're working from the moment you wake up to the moment you got to bed. Sometimes you make up fun drama, because it can get a little boring, but that's all light-hearted fun so that's different.Collection: Fun
You get more insight as you get older, on everything. I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product'.Collection: Morning