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

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

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

Pennywise are legends and gentlemen and maniacs.

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

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

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

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.

I'm from the MTV generation.

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

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.

I want recording to be fun.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I consider myself a pagan and a witch.

I collect motorcycles and art.

I like even numbers.