Ariel Rechtshaid

I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.

I have a hard time repeating myself.

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.