I actually looked up in my journal trying to figure out some dates and, in January 1991, America is about to go back into its first sort of actual war since Vietnam, with the Gulf War. It just seemed unbelievable at the time that this country would do that - which is funny to think about now.

We were not a band that typically would say, "Hello, Whatever Town!"

The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative.

I put my name on that Occupy Musicians list because someone wrote to me and said, "Would you do this?" I said, "Yeah sure, I support this." What artist wouldn't support that? What's the big deal? But then people wrote to me, "Wow! You're on that list!" And I'm like, "Who isn't on that list?" That would be more shocking.

I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.

It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.

Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.