There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn't we all be entitled to a family-Civil rights baby it's civil rights. It doesn't get any better here in Berkeley I'll tell you that.

We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think.

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

I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old.

The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else