There's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.

I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California.

There's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.

There is nothing more awkward and more laughable than a naked dude with his wiener flopping.

Then when we did the untitled record, we just didn't feel like putting joke stuff on it, so we didn't. It wasn't really a deliberation or a real introspective thing like, "Are we going to joke on this one, are we not going to joke on this one?" We just didn't feel like it on the untitled one, so we didn't.

It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time.

There was a great push and pull of what Blink-128 should sound like all the time. Travis Barker comes from a different background than I do, and Tom DeLonge comes from a different background than either of us in terms of what we write and what we think a song should be. Tom pushes me out of a box that I put myself in.