I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

If Britney would paint her ass green, I'm sure you could spot green asses all over LA as soon as the word was out.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.