I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.

San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.

My favorite venues are the 2,000 seat theaters, like the Warfield. If there was a Warfield in every city, I would play it. That's all I would do. I love venues like that.

We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.