I would love to come to Auckland. That’s a place I’ve been quite a lot with my band so I’m very much looking forward to it.
I’m hoping that people should hopefully give me another chance to dream big and to deliver on those dreams.
When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.
The labels can’t do anything for a band anymore – they’re stuck and they have no money and they’re just holding onto contracts that have existed from a time where there were resources.
There are lots of things that I’m always pulling inspiration from.
If artists slowly learn how their business works, they’ll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they’ll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.
I’m sick of being known as the sexy guy that writes great songs.
I used to drink a lot of beer, but I was just getting fat as can be. Now that we’ve had a little success, I can afford to drink wine.
I applaud anyone who thinks I’m good-looking and invite them into my world.
You don’t even wish for the success that I had, because you don’t think it’s attainable.
Maybe I do wanna become a woman, so what is the crime in that?
We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don’t, it doesn’t matter, we’re artists.
When we started Angels Airwaves, we wanted to produce our art on different mediums, but the film was an ambitious one because we actually didn’t go into it thinking we could make a big feature film.
The Angels shows are really intense. We play for a couple hours at a time. They’re very theatrical and full of audience interaction and emotion. I’ve seen a lot of people crying and stuff. It’s a little bit like church, but it’s very secular.
Records aren’t selling anymore; people are burning music.
Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It’s simply because when a human looks at a shape, they instantly receive energy from their brain.
My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade. But they’ve come up with some amazing drugs since then and he’s doing really well today.
When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.
Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur that’s all me.
I’ve realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.