If your like me, you like to wait till your parents are having sex and walk in on them and act like its an accident, and then ask if you can join in.

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

Once I was in the Blink-182, going to Iraq was really touching. It was kind of emo for me, going and meeting soldiers who were, like, 19 and hadn't even met their kids... Or dealing with depression. Just being with those soldiers and traveling with them in helicopters and people with M-16s. It was an eye-opener.

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.

Every one of those old songs like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" is like a tattoo or a scrapbook or an old photograph. There are just songs that define certain moments in your life. Everyone has a song that got them through a bad breakup or they put on and it made them feel like they wanted to go out and kick the world's ass with their friends on a weekend. Those songs still feel like that to me.