Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.

You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.

I'm not a conservative or a republican but I know that there's conservative republicans who I probably vigorously disagree with but I also am smart enough, or something enough, to understand that they really think that they're right, and they're looking at me like I'm crazy.