“I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward ...” — Amy Tan Quote

I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

God, life changes faster than you think.

Thanks to my mother, I was raised to have a morbid imagination. When I was a child, she often talked about death as warning, as an unavoidable matter of fact. Little Debbie's mom down the block might say, 'Honey, look both ways before crossing the street.' My mother's version: 'You don't look, you get smash flat like sand dab.' (Sand dabs were the cheap fish we bought live in the market, distinguished in my mind by their two eyes affixed on one side of their woebegone cartoon faces.)

The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.

We get to be like music. You might be into rock, you might be into hip-hop, you might be into R&B. Comedy gets genres now. You might be into absurdist comedy, slapstick comedy. It's exciting.

I feel most comfortable keeping versatile when it comes to music genres.

I came from a strong jazz/ singer-songwriter/folk influence, but in L.A., I learned how to have a balance between all these genres and R&B music and hip-hop, mixing them all together.

I'm going to be testing waters in all genres.