Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.

There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.

The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.

When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

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.