Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.

If something is wrong with you, hate someone else for it

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.

Too many bands practice in their garage, play a couple of shows locally, and expect opportunities to appear from the sky. Bands have to push, work, grind, and struggle to make it happen on their own.

I think people take Blink-128 more seriously now than they did before. And it's largely our fault because we called our records Enema of the State and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. We were always kind of the underdogs, especially critically. People wrote us off as this joke band. But the people who listened to Blink knew that we were silly and whatever, but we wrote songs about divorce and suicide and depression. Those kids that were listening to Blink are now the ones that control all these outlets that used to just write us off.

I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.

I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.