I love our country. My dad served in the army. I always grew up with a song sense of belonging as an American. But I was also in the counterculture and I was coming from a place of fearing the police. So I was anti-establishment, but also loving your country. It's kind of an ironic sort of upbringing.

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

I always said that the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone

For me, it's important to get back to fundamentally what it feels like to be an American. We all come from different backgrounds, but we come together and create this world. It's like a microcosm for the rest of the world. I want people to feel unity when they come to a show.

At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey

I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.