One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.