The Most Valuable Live Thing For Me

By The Time I'm 50, There Is Probably Going To Be A Nuclear Holocaust. I Should Just Enjoy Myself.

My Manager Lives On My Block; Four Of The Apartments In My Apartment Complex Of Seven Are People I Know. It's A Really Close-knit Community, And Almost Everyone On These Few Blocks Are Artists Or Graphic Designers, Because We Live Right On The Cusp Of A Warehouse District.

When An Artist, Or Whomever, Moves From Their Scene To The Bigger Pond, It Starts Getting Crazy, Because All Of A Sudden People Don't Respect You, And You Have To Start Being A Lot More Aggressive Than You Would Normally Be.

I Think One Of The Reasons I'm Successful As A Musician Is That The First Like 30 Shows I Played, I Played With No Monitors Standing In Front Of Guitar Amps In A Shitty, Smoky Warehouse Where People Were Screaming And Wasted, Knocking Over My Gear. So Shows After That Seem Pretty Easy!

Removing All Stimulation Around You Is A Really Positive Thing In Terms Of Stimulating Your Creativity.