There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.

Sometimes you get an audience that's looking to just explode.

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.

It's not how many tickets can we sell, it's where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most money. We don't really care about that.

Don't buy the bootlegs, save your stuff, everything's coming back out.

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.