I collect motorcycles and art.
Orange County encompasses a large area that has a lot of Alkaline Trio fans.
When we're on tour, we try to keep our voices sharp. We get up there and put on the best show we can.
Making your band your career just seems like a pipe dream when it's not happening, and when it does, it seems so surreal.
To worship the devil, you have to believe in it first.
Long before punk entered my life, I loved scary films and stories.
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.
Fear is sort of like jealousy. It's an unnecessary emotion.
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.
The Ramones all hate each other, and they did it for decades. I wouldn't be able to do that. That would be like working at the bank or something.
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.
I've written songs about love or about a relationship, but never just, 'I love you.'
I'm in Alkaline Trio; I guess I get to rip off myself. I give myself permission.
