We really try not to spend too much time thinking about what we’re supposed to be a punk band, or whatever. We do the exact same thing today that we been doing for years and years and years.
There’s no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it’s destroyed.
I liked seventeen-year-old me, I was happy when I was seventeen. I was this troubled goth kid that wore eyeliner and make-up to school and listened to punk-rock music and I loved my friends and I started to make music – I like seventeen-year-old me.
Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn’t touch me. It was infuriating to them.
I like the beaches in Orange County the best. I think Orange County has great beaches. Everything from Dana Point to Newport to Laguna; all over the place.
Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they’d still be in the boat.
The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don’t know what the Hell they’re doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.
It’s so easy to put music out that it’s difficult to sift through stuff that I don’t like to find stuff I do like.
I don’t want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don’t like, and fortunately I don’t have to.
It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.
Thats not a place where I’m considered good-looking.
I grew up the biggest fan of the Cure. Knew every lyric, had every album, B-side, single, poster, everything. Then cut to fifteen years later, and we’re working on songs together. Ridiculous.
It’s a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
Every single day that you walk outside your house is something new and different and exciting.
Once you declare your loyalty to a team, every person who doesn’t support that team, it’s their job to ruin you, to tell you you’re an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice.
I’ve learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.
Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I’m not advocating promiscuity.
I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people.
And anyone that calls me a sell-out is just jealous.