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.Collection: Dad
The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.Collection: Sports
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.Collection: Freedom
There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.Collection: Beauty
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?Collection: Future
Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.Collection: Music
Our passion is our strength.Collection: Strength
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.
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.
Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
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 approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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.
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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.
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.
In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.
Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.