I collect motorcycles and art.

I consider myself a pagan and a witch.

It feels really good to be doing Blink justice. Stepping on stage for the first show was pretty crazy. I've been skydiving several times, and that's the closest thing I can compare it to. Such a beautiful rush.

As a kid, I took piano lessons, and I didn't like it. It wasn't cool. I was into Duran Duran and rock music. I didn't have any interest in piano. I did it for three years, and because of piano, I learned percussion. I learned scales. I learned how to sing. Piano gives you all of the basics of those things.

When we're on tour, we try to keep our voices sharp. We get up there and put on the best show we can.

There are things about this country that are horrible; there's things about this country that are beautiful. I've been almost everywhere, and there's nowhere else I'd rather live.

Fear is sort of like jealousy. It's an unnecessary emotion.

I think that the more that you play and the more instruments you play and the better you get at them, then you will be better off for it as a guitarist.

Creating a record on my own and deciding who plays and how the songs were structured, it was fun to do.

Jesus was not born on December 25th. There's carbon evidence of it. That freaks people out.

Death isn't something that should necessarily be glorified, but I also don't think it's something that people need to be afraid of. It's just the way it is. There's nothing we can do about it.

I want recording to be fun.

A cousin of mine was a graphic designer, and he took me as a kid to see Flesh for Lulu and Social Distortion in 1988 in Chicago.

They are one of my favorite bands and one of my first musical loves: Devo.

I'm from the MTV generation.

We definitely like to write songs about darker things, but we like to think of it as a celebration of the evil ideas that run through everybody's head.

There was some real bad alternative - 'alternative' - stuff that came out in the '90s that's completely cringe-worthy.

They're great players. I'm not a Blues Traveler fan, though. I get it, but it's not for me.

I go with what I know and what I see, and I believe in reality.

Pennywise are legends and gentlemen and maniacs.

The very first show I ever saw was The Judds, and that influenced me to not play country music.

People think we're always dark and gloomy, and we're not.

While I was in Chicago, I rode my bike everywhere.

My parents have always been very supportive. But now that I play in Blink, all of my parents' friends are so jazzed that it makes my folks excited.

I have never played in a ska band.

All of my HH Jags have Ducati stickers on 'em.

When I agreed to do the Blink shows, I said that I'd do it as long as they were willing to practise every day.

My attraction to the Church of Satan... is the same thing that initially attracted me to punk rock. It was something that wasn't very entirely popular, and it was sort of like the adversary to mainstream culture and beliefs.

The Church of Satan was something, aesthetically, that we were always really fascinated with and wanted to emulate. I think it's a good look.

We've had kids come to our shows and ask us why we hate Jesus. It's like, 'Well, we don't hate Jesus at all. We just think religion is silly, and it's a really popular thing, but that doesn't mean we have to agree with it.'

The first line of the song is always the hardest thing to write. And then after that, the song should - unless it sucks - it should write itself.

The Devil is fun.

There is sort of an unspoken 'no skateboarding' clause on tour that I break pretty often.

We were fans of Green Day and Nirvana or whatever, but the bands we really loved were Chicago bands that didn't really sound anything like Alkaline Trio.

I'm thankful for everything good and bad that happened to our band.

It's never been about what we want others to see: it's about what we want to see; it's about what we want to do. We only have a career because of our fans, but we have to keep making music for the reason we started making music.

The really smart conspiracies are the ones that explain, 'This is why this is plausible,' not, 'This is what happened.' If it makes sense and if it's possible, I'd investigate it.

I feel like everything happens for a reason.

When you're 20, you think you know a lot more than you do.

Glasgow is one of my favourite cities.

I'm a bookworm, so I read about a book a month.

I love being in Blink!

I honestly couldn't have asked for or expected the amount of love and support I've received from a large majority of Blink's fans.

To be in touch with death, and the darker side of life, makes the lighter side more enjoyable.

Heaven and hell are something that people create to make some people feel guilty and other people like myself laugh.

I think who I am as a person on and off the stage is always kind of the same thing, but I don't take a lot of things very seriously.

I see kids in Cradle of Filth shirts at our shows, which is awesome.

I loved anything spooky, mysterious, or frightening.

I haven't eaten an animal in over twenty years!