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 …

- Geoff Rickly

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…

- Geoff Rickly

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…

- Geoff Rickly

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…

- Geoff Rickly

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 …

- Geoff Rickly

We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.

- Geoff Rickly

I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.

- Geoff Rickly

The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.

- Geoff Rickly

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…

- Geoff Rickly