I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

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

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.

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

Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10 kids can burn them. So you have to really be on your toes.

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.