I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes.

I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.

I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home.

I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.

I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that.

I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.

Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly.

I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.