We were all anti-Reagan, we were all politically-aware, we were all anti-war and things like that. These days a lot of the newer bands don't even really talk about that sort of stuff anymore.

I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. Anything you get into, you should research it and figure its roots and try to really be a real strong part of it.

I focus more on the music and my message; I'm not a party type of guy.

I'm not better then anyone because of what I do, who I am and where I come from.

If you really want to be part of something and you have that much passion towards it, you'll know enough to research it and find the history of it; and history is so important, history is everything.

To me, the lyrics mean more then the music, and that's the way it should always be.

People don't understand what term "selling out" means. To me selling out means if I were to stop doing this and go work for McDonald's then I would sell out.

Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.

Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it.

To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.

The choices we make, dictate the lives we lead.

We don't get what we deserve. We get what we BELIEVE we deserve.

There are some things that have to wait and that can't just happen right now.

Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

Forget yourself! Think courage.

One thing we said as an offense is we want to start games fast ... we want the other team to play catch-up to us.

When I was a kid, all I liked were books and chocolate.