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My parents are both war veterans; they met in Vietnam. They were involved in a war that they absolutely disagreed with.
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Making your band your career just seems like a pipe dream when it's not happening, and when it does, it seems so surreal.
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I went through some pretty rough patches in my life, and I've come out of them a stronger, more inspired, and energetic person.
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When George W. Bush was up for re-election, we took part in Rock Against Bush.
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Touring with Blink helped introduce people to Alkaline Trio who otherwise wouldn't have ever heard of us.
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We certainly are proud of our punk-rock heritage, but when people who like other kinds of music are into your band, it's flattering.
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As far as, like, the moon landing... did we go there? I believe so. Is it everything that we're told? I don't think so.
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With every inch of my energy, I wanted Fyre not to happen. I put all the electricity and energy in my body against that thing happening.
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I've been to the Bahamas before, and it's so crass. You land in Nassau, and the whole island is replete with beauty and culture, but there's a lot of poverty. It is a largely black population; then they build these places like Atlantis and The Cove that are walled off.
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I grew up on Michael Jackson, Pat Benetar, and Van Halen - all the things coming out of the television.
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At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating; I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle junkie. I just can't stop doing those things.
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I think for us - and for a lot of people in the Church of Satan - we definitely like ruffling people's feathers and poking fun at organized religion a little bit.
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We have this song called 'Radio,' and I wrote that song when we needed one more song for a record. So I went back into the other room and wrote it in 20 minutes.
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We have the best fans in the world. A lot of artists say that, but in this case, it's actually fact.
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Everyone who signed us to Epic, all of the people we trusted there, were let go.
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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.
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I was a bicycle messenger when Alkaline Trio was formed as a way to make ends meet before the band became a career, and I've just always been a cyclist - I BMX'd, and then I got really into - through messengering - I got really into road bikes and fixed gears, which I still have.
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I dropped out of arts school because I didn't wanna stare at a computer all day - I get headaches.
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I don't think we're any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it's fun to write about the inevitable - you're alive, and you're going to die.
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I love working with my band-mates in Alkaline Trio, but to make a rock record that was just mine was something that I wanted to do.
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I'm in Alkaline Trio; I guess I get to rip off myself. I give myself permission.
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I think I'm a man about the things I need to be a man about, but I get paid to play, pretty much. I do what I love for a living, and I also get to build BMX bikes in my spare time.
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I really like a lot of the old 2-tone ska. I definitely went through a phase where I was into The Specials and The Busters. But a lot of the ska revival - I never really have had an interest in that.
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For Alkaline Trio, Chicago is our hometown. The band started there. Even though we all live in different cities now, we still call Chicago home, and it's always really exciting to come back and play for our best crowd.
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In this day and age, though, no matter how many people you play for, if you're playing with a band like Blink, millions of people will see it thanks to YouTube and everything recording it.
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There are just as many dirt bags in independent music as there are in major labels.
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Dallas is a good town. I spent a lot of time there as a kid. It always nice to come back.
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Being a drummer definitely influences how I play guitar. And then piano influences drumming and vice versa.
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I'm really thankful for the time that I grew up in that we didn't have cell phones, and we made a lot of our own fun.
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The feeling that you want the listener to get, you should get yourself when you first hit that chord, and that melody comes to mind.
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The Sekrets record is very much me, and Dan's Emergency Room is very much him. And then Alkaline Trio is very much ours.
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I think people hear the words 'transcendental meditation' and 'paganism,' and that's almost worse because it's real. Those are real things. Those are absolute energies. Satanism is like Halloween. Transcendental meditation and having a realization of how we really are - whether we want to be or not - we live in a pagan culture.
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