We definitely like to write songs about darker things, but we like to think of it as a celebration of the evil ideas that run through everybody's head.

There was some real bad alternative - 'alternative' - stuff that came out in the '90s that's completely cringe-worthy.

They're great players. I'm not a Blues Traveler fan, though. I get it, but it's not for me.

I go with what I know and what I see, and I believe in reality.

Pennywise are legends and gentlemen and maniacs.

The very first show I ever saw was The Judds, and that influenced me to not play country music.

People think we're always dark and gloomy, and we're not.

While I was in Chicago, I rode my bike everywhere.

My parents have always been very supportive. But now that I play in Blink, all of my parents' friends are so jazzed that it makes my folks excited.

I have never played in a ska band.

All of my HH Jags have Ducati stickers on 'em.

When I agreed to do the Blink shows, I said that I'd do it as long as they were willing to practise every day.

My attraction to the Church of Satan... is the same thing that initially attracted me to punk rock. It was something that wasn't very entirely popular, and it was sort of like the adversary to mainstream culture and beliefs.

The Church of Satan was something, aesthetically, that we were always really fascinated with and wanted to emulate. I think it's a good look.

We've had kids come to our shows and ask us why we hate Jesus. It's like, 'Well, we don't hate Jesus at all. We just think religion is silly, and it's a really popular thing, but that doesn't mean we have to agree with it.'

The first line of the song is always the hardest thing to write. And then after that, the song should - unless it sucks - it should write itself.

The Devil is fun.

There is sort of an unspoken 'no skateboarding' clause on tour that I break pretty often.

We were fans of Green Day and Nirvana or whatever, but the bands we really loved were Chicago bands that didn't really sound anything like Alkaline Trio.

I'm thankful for everything good and bad that happened to our band.

It's never been about what we want others to see: it's about what we want to see; it's about what we want to do. We only have a career because of our fans, but we have to keep making music for the reason we started making music.

The really smart conspiracies are the ones that explain, 'This is why this is plausible,' not, 'This is what happened.' If it makes sense and if it's possible, I'd investigate it.

I feel like everything happens for a reason.

When you're 20, you think you know a lot more than you do.

Glasgow is one of my favourite cities.

I'm a bookworm, so I read about a book a month.

I love being in Blink!

I honestly couldn't have asked for or expected the amount of love and support I've received from a large majority of Blink's fans.

To be in touch with death, and the darker side of life, makes the lighter side more enjoyable.

Heaven and hell are something that people create to make some people feel guilty and other people like myself laugh.

I think who I am as a person on and off the stage is always kind of the same thing, but I don't take a lot of things very seriously.

I see kids in Cradle of Filth shirts at our shows, which is awesome.

I loved anything spooky, mysterious, or frightening.

I haven't eaten an animal in over twenty years!

Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.

Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.

The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you your loan held on to it for life. If you lost your job or got too sick to work and suddenly had trouble making your payments, you could call a human being and work things out.

The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.

Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It's about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget.

To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.

Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.

I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in bed with Wall Street.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

When push comes to shove, we all should know most Americans want the same things, but just disagree on how to get there, which is why it should be okay to not panic if the other party wins.

If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.