I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.

To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit

Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.

As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, "Yeah, sure, I'll give it a shot!" It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, "Absolutely!"

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.