We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.

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.

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.

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.

I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.

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

We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.