“I’ve gone through a lot of things in my life, more than some. I don’t dwell on it. But that’s what happened. It is what it is. L.A.’s Got Me Down focuses on that so much. Maybe the next one won’t—maybe the next one will be chill!”

“Kids are dying in the streets and you’re bored in bed? What the hell?!”

“At some point you really have to put a Post-It note on your work station and say, ‘Try to think about good things.’ Otherwise you can really go down a long, dark hole.”

I wrote a massive oral history of Rise Against for their equally massive box set.

I wrote a critical essay accompanying the 2014 reissue of Cursive’s landmark album The Ugly Organ.