I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this sh-. It's a very difficult thing to explain. My liver is not functioning and I'm throwing up all the time and shitting my pants. The pain is more than you can handle. It's the worst pain in the world. Dope sick hurts the entire body.

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

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.

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

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

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

What do you mean, I'm a wild front man! I'm jumping all over, I do the dance moves.