Occupation: Musician Birth: March 8, 1979
We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist..
People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always embarrasses me ….
Even though it's an unpopular paradigm, wear your heart on your sleeve, and mean what you say. Believe in what you say, and there will be a time for ….
Punk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same things that go on in larger c….
The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic..
As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's t….
What we get in punk these days is the "anti-anti": Someone comes up with something, then the next generation is against that, and then the next gener….
People aren't really paying attention when they're listening to your record, so unless you're shouting exactly what you want them to hear, they don't….
I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life..
There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio..
Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class..
I got married in Vegas on Warped Tour on July 4 - that's how crazy my life has been..
I'm still totally going out and sleeping on people's floors so I can play a house show and give away music. Of course I would. That's how I started. ….
What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom..