We're the worst band in America... That makes us the best.
You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.
I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic
Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.