Quotes from John Gourley

It's silly to me to not be positive about rock advancing and growing. Really, we just want rock n' roll to be mainstream.

Some New York bands you'll see rocking Ones or Dunks and things like that, but it is weird that the sneakerhead thing has become so massive. Personally, I think it's really silly.

We're just nerds that play music. Because we get played on the radio and have a Vitaminwater ad with Aaron Paul dancing on a treadmill, people are going to say we sold out. I don't write music for that. I write music for me.

I've never been the type of person that puts things on a shelf or, like, needs to clean my sneakers every day. I just wear what I like.

There are some athletes who I feel like are just looking for likes, and then there are people who are just real.

I love Unknown Mortal Orchestra, who are from New Zealand, living in Portland.

You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.

My favourite piece of music is actually 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' as a whole. For me, it's the most perfect and brilliant example of rock song writing.

As a songwriter, it's good to have criticism, and I like objective opinions.

Miles Davis and Felonious Monk, they're both great artists who enhance things.

To me, sci-fi has the most amazing style.

I'm just not into the shady side of the music industry. Give credit where credit's due.

If you don't have negative experiences, you have no way to gauge the positive ones, and you have no way to deal with it.

Nike is obviously more sporty than Adidas. I always associate Adidas with Beastie Boys and Run-DMC.

I was a shy kid growing up, and I liked the idea of playing under this alter ego: like, I could be Ziggy Stardust, but I also knew I could never be Ziggy Stardust.

Portugal is like Ziggy Stardust. The period is there, so you know that it's not the country, it's Portugal. The 'Man' states, 'He's the man.'

When we were kids, my favorite thing was coming to upstate New York where my family is from and hanging out with my grandparents' friends pre-Internet and them asking if we had stores or 'Do you have TV in Alaska?'

'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.

I would watch 'Sesame Street' and see neighborhoods and kids with other kids to play with, and I just didn't have that. You know, we were on a lake. We just didn't have that stuff.

Growing up, the only acts that came to us in Alaska were the big ones. The Mariah Careys.

The whole band is from Alaska. It's like growing up anywhere else.

There's something about Detroit, man: there's a serious vibe there. It could be that blue-collar, working-class-mentality person who lives out there. There's just something about it. It reminds me of Alaska. Texas has the same thing. Detroit is a little heavier than both.

Poor Ron Paul. He means well. He really does. But there's something about him. I don't know what it is. From falling victim to Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno to that old-man shuffle, he just seems like kind of a... like kind of a sissy.

My dad just decided that he wanted to race sled dogs, and when he did that, he took us out of Wasilla, and we never really went back.