First day of Vidcon! Just added Tessa violet’s new song Crush to the car playlist.

LeAnn Rimes is great. I’m back on board. I’m going to stop apologizing for everything I love. I’m just going to love it.

I never took music theory. It’s mostly that album A Love Supreme. It feels sacred to me. I had a friend once tell me A Love Supreme is convincing evidence for the existence of God. And that’s really stuck in my head ’cause it’s a little bit true to me.

I would listen to Nine Inch Nails really, really loud, and I would feel heard and powerful. And one day, my dad knocks on the door, and he’s like, “What are you listening to?” And I’m like, “It’s Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine.”

Not to sound like a hipster R.E.M. fan, but as a kid I wanted to—and this is not something I’m super proud of—but a lot of times when it comes to my relationship with music, especially when I was younger, I’m trying to project something. I’m trying to say something about myself. With liking R.E.M., I was trying to say: I am a sophisticated listener of rock-and-roll music and I care about lyrics and there are lots of secrets in them.

The Mountain Goats' song "The Mess Inside" is so good that I think about it every time I see an overcast sky.

What kind of music does John Green listen to? I listen to the early stuff from The Mountain Goats and also the more recent stuff from The Mountain Goats.