I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive at the same facts if we engage in the process of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a debate over whether God does or doesn't exist.

We should enjoy and make the most of life

I was in a choir as a kid. It was from those early days that my outlook on harmonies and arrangements were nurtured. I always took that with me, even on the earliest Bad Religion record, which strangely was only about six years after that.

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.

Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.

I definitely was attracted to similar things in punk and science. They both depend on a healthy dose of skepticism.

Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.