I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.

I almost wish we would've filmed a whole fake tampon commercial around ["I'm With Her"].

I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

I've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put out music that didn't sound super loud and aggressive. And yet they were punk because they were creating culture in their own community instead of taking their cue from MTV about what was real music and what was cool. It wasn't about a certain fashion. It was about your ideology, it was about creating a community and doing it on your own and not having to rely on, kinda, "The Man" to brand you and say that you were okay.

When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.

Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is.