The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.