"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."

"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."

"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."

"If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good."

"I hate celebrities. I really hate them."

"I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard."

"People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old."

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

"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?"

"A punk concert isn't fun without a pit."

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

"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."

"Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle."

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

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

"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."

"Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted."

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

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

"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."

"Our passion is our strength."

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

"I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today."

"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."

"Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything."