Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.

All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.

Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are.

The music kind of takes care of itself because we've done all that as preproduction in the practice room. So by the time it gets onstage, each song has about one hundred hours of way too much mothering gone into it. So when you see us play live, that is the product of ninety days of practice, over a year of writing, listening to demos on the weekends after practice.

As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.

When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.

When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage.