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

I don't take part in it the way I used to-the bimbos, the free beers, free drugs, all that. That's still there if you want it, but I don't really seek that out any more.

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.

Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.