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?

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.

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

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.

I was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that.