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.

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.

I don't personally feel that I've lost my fire.

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.

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.

I'm in Alkaline Trio; I guess I get to rip off myself. I give myself permission.

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.

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.

Never had a mullet.

I dropped out of arts school because I didn't wanna stare at a computer all day - I get headaches.

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.

I was always a punk rock skate kid from a very young age.

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.

Everyone who signed us to Epic, all of the people we trusted there, were let go.

We have the best fans in the world. A lot of artists say that, but in this case, it's actually fact.

I'm the die-hard that still goes out to buy records.

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.

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.

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.

I grew up on Michael Jackson, Pat Benetar, and Van Halen - all the things coming out of the television.

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.

Meditation has really done wonders for me personally and artistically.

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.

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.

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.

Rock n' roll is the Devil's music.

Touring with Blink helped introduce people to Alkaline Trio who otherwise wouldn't have ever heard of us.

I miss the videos that are short films, back when MTV played videos all day.

When George W. Bush was up for re-election, we took part in Rock Against Bush.

I went through some pretty rough patches in my life, and I've come out of them a stronger, more inspired, and energetic person.

Making your band your career just seems like a pipe dream when it's not happening, and when it does, it seems so surreal.

To worship the devil, you have to believe in it first.

Long before punk entered my life, I loved scary films and stories.

My parents are both war veterans; they met in Vietnam. They were involved in a war that they absolutely disagreed with.

I like even numbers.

I collect motorcycles and art.

I consider myself a pagan and a witch.

It feels really good to be doing Blink justice. Stepping on stage for the first show was pretty crazy. I've been skydiving several times, and that's the closest thing I can compare it to. Such a beautiful rush.

As a kid, I took piano lessons, and I didn't like it. It wasn't cool. I was into Duran Duran and rock music. I didn't have any interest in piano. I did it for three years, and because of piano, I learned percussion. I learned scales. I learned how to sing. Piano gives you all of the basics of those things.

When we're on tour, we try to keep our voices sharp. We get up there and put on the best show we can.

There are things about this country that are horrible; there's things about this country that are beautiful. I've been almost everywhere, and there's nowhere else I'd rather live.

Fear is sort of like jealousy. It's an unnecessary emotion.

I think that the more that you play and the more instruments you play and the better you get at them, then you will be better off for it as a guitarist.

Creating a record on my own and deciding who plays and how the songs were structured, it was fun to do.

Jesus was not born on December 25th. There's carbon evidence of it. That freaks people out.

Death isn't something that should necessarily be glorified, but I also don't think it's something that people need to be afraid of. It's just the way it is. There's nothing we can do about it.

I want recording to be fun.

A cousin of mine was a graphic designer, and he took me as a kid to see Flesh for Lulu and Social Distortion in 1988 in Chicago.

They are one of my favorite bands and one of my first musical loves: Devo.

I'm from the MTV generation.