We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.

We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.

We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.

I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.

I'm not doing well. Don't try to talk about this to my sister Liz. She will know it sooner or later.

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!