I still think punk's around. It's been pushed into the mainstream and it gets harder to draw that line between what's pop and what's punk.

I want to be stereotyped. I want to be classified.

The most visceral expression of emotion in music.

We want to mentally be young, even if physically we're not.

Once it stops being fun, we won't be able to do it anymore. People are going to know that we're not having fun, and we're going to know that we're not having fun. So at that point, it just ends.

The two things that matter are the desire, and being healthy enough to do it. Everything else to me is a non-issue.

I don't want to live your dream. That's your dream. Go ahead and do it. But it's not mine.

Part of 'Beyond The Music' is also the notion that no matter what came of us, or the band, the most important thing for us ended up being the friendships.

I tend to be the one that breaks the mold most often, and thus, I tend to be the one with a lot of outtakes, songs that don't make the record.

I've never written a song about DNA or anything that I work on. But I just think that DIY aspect, and the creativity and the belonging and acceptance is what drew me in.

Frankly, accepting the family's unique qualities has done wonders to help my own sanity.

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Passion though a bad regulator is a powerful spring.

People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'

If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it.

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.

When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.

The greatest thing for me football-wise is that it's a test of will.