I've always felt very disconnected from the world.
This music game will make you sacrifice everything.
I don't spend as much time my family and my friends I would like to.
For me, the experiences I have inside games are as powerful as any experience I've had in the real world.
I can start working on something out like 9:00 or 10:00 p.m.
and then, all of a sudden, it's like 4:00 in the morning...
and sometimes I'll come out with something really nice that I love
and sometimes I'll come out with nothing, but either way—I was in that space.
It's just about making each sound believable, each word believable,
making everything about that song—for everything in the details—believable
to where, we're talking to ourselves.
There's still this thing that I can imagine but can't put into words and
every part of the writing process is an attempt to create that.
I didn't have a voice growing up but then when I met Brian and Paul
that was the first time I was being heard
and I felt like maybe that was the first time I was able to connect with other people.
It's a level of fearlessness when I'm playing with my friends on stage
We are family you know, we don't have to talk on stage ever
and we can look at each other and know who's gonna do what.
I thought that having children would change my relationship with the music that I write
but actually all it did was just reinforce the fact that I was doing the right thing.
This fan-base grew from nothing out of nowhere
with this deep love for what we were doing,
just for cathartic purposes.
I've been touring since I was seventeen.
It's your talent... but that's not even half of it.
An element of it has to be slightly fanatical,
it has to be driven by that kind of almost unhealthy energy.
There's a sense of belonging that I've never experienced before
and that feeling of like wanting to fit into something that is not me
has been able to disappear.
It's a feeling that we all get when we onstage together.
It's just like a flow of notes to where
we're not in each other's way at all.
We already live in multiple realities, everybody's in a different space inside their head.
How often do you have a genuinely shared experience with somebody in the real world?
If one person enjoys your album... then it's a success.
What I love about music the most is it's an expression of me,
of my life, my culture.
It's an escape from all my problems.
This is my time for me to express how I feel through a higher channel...
this is my time to be free.