During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.

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.

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 like the beaches in Orange County the best. I think Orange County has great beaches. Everything from Dana Point to Newport to Laguna; all over the place.

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

We worked very hard on that untitled record to do something different and that we were proud of and to try a bunch of different ideas. It was like this gigantic musical laboratory that we were going to every day. I love that record, I think that's one of the high watermarks of us as a band.

Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.