It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.

Madisyn [Shipman] was great. She's a really talented kid. We got along great. It was fun, in between scenes, I'd pull out my iPod and show her different old rock 'n' roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it.

Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin

That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.