What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing.
I suppose I view my behavior in such a unique way. I frame it as an artist and maybe kind of make excuses for it. I suppose I romanticize my own life when I write. I always try to think whether it actually is quite romantic.
Everything's immediately diminished. That's why there's no real rock stars anymore. People are too accessible.
I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to sputter out after a hundred pages or so - an awful admission for someone who is trying to write one, but it's true.
I don't know whether we'll have another Michael Jackson or Elvis, because the world's too quick to level the playing field in that regard. For example, if Michael Jackson did the moonwalk for the first time now, and it debuted on Twitter, the third comment would probably be: "He's just walking backwards."
There's no coherent stylistic genre specific advice that I could provide.
When you start becoming a pop star, you think, Hold on a second, maybe my life is different now - maybe all these people that I thought of as celebrities are going to be normal, and when I walk into a room I'm going to be really cool and so is everyone else. But that's not what happens at all - I was awkward, and then I just retreated from any social engagement for about a year.
I think the less individuality you portray... not individuality but like the more solidarity you have the better.
We try to make the sound hold as much relevance as it does on the record you know, we don't try and interpret it in a different way.
There's a lot of particularly good things going on in my life at the moment. It's the fact that I get to be an ambassador for the concept of modernity. I can be creative and useful. And I don't have to grow up.
I think early on I was really into ambient music and like American original Emo.
Along with John Hughes, he's probably the biggest influence. Would be awesome not only to meet him; he's one person I'd also definitely like to work with.
As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.
I need to keep my dancing on the right side of weird, otherwise it might get a bit like "American Idol."
The main reason we understand what we're doing is because we're the individuals doing it. One of the things that surprises me is that all the songs are about me, and it's cool that people care.
I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read.
I think what I listen to now is what I listened to as a kid which is kind of black American soul. I love soul music.
We intentionally didn't want to release anything when we were very young, I suppose, because we had a lot of foresight. Stuff can come back to bite you in the ass. Know what I mean?
We had this realisation that we'd sort of travelled from my bedroom to America and all these people are watching us and that was awesome. 11 shows in 5 days I mean if we weren't going out, we were on stage, it was huge.
We've finished our debut album which has 14 tracks. We're very proud of the release and can't wait for people to hear it.
Growing up, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson. I saw him at Wembley when I was 7 years old, it was my first proper show. He was like a god to me.
When I was young I was one of those kids that got pulled onstage at a Green Day concert. That was pretty awesome.
At the moment we're playing more stuff from our upcoming album which is really a departure from any record we've done.
Its quite there sonically; a strong representation of what the songs on our records are like. It's very loud and our set is based around containing as much energy and dynamics as possible.
A band that we supported called Blackfish in Manchester, played the most insane gig I've ever been to. Everything was set on fire, and then they came on and played one of the coolest gigs I've ever seen.
