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

Thats not a place where I'm considered good-looking.

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 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.

We really try not to spend too much time thinking about what we're supposed to be a punk band, or whatever. We do the exact same thing today that we been doing for years and years and years.

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

Yeah, I actually do know where I am.