It's hard to cover for someone who's disrespectful and ungrateful...To say, 'I didn't quit the band' is just not true. It's disingenuous.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

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.

Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.