Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

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.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

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

We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.

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

When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.