Throughout my life of having Crohn's, I've been on and off prednisone when other stuff was not working.

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

Some people are still not into us. That makes sense. We haven't really done a lot of press. We haven't put ourselves out there in ways that a lot of people would know we are still around. Unless you tour or record, they don't know you are around.

Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.

My favorite rocker is Go because it is heavy and chaotic.

It's extremely important to have a loyal fan base and be receptive to them.

It's always push and pull with a record company.

I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them.

I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.

I have to eat in a way that's good for me.

I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon.

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

I am constantly amazed at their support over the years.

At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time.

At some shows, the set list gets changed while we are on stage. I know Ed thinks about the set very hard throughout the day in order to make the best show possible for the fans and for us.

There are some people who have stayed with us our whole career, which is pretty cool too.

I'm surprised that we're around still. A lot of the bands that we came out with are not around.

We try to keep everything as in-house and small and as punk rock and do-it-yourself as we can. That's part of our way of doing business.

There are moments in South America, in Brazil, where you look out, and there are literally thirty, forty thousand people jumping up and down at the same time.

And watching Ed, he's really coming into his own doing some new things onstage I've never seen him do. He's really getting into it, putting 120 percent into the show. We feel comfortable and excited.

'Even Flow' is the best to play live because of the long solos. It starts out slow and builds, and, depending on what the audience does, I can reflect that in the solo.

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.

I honestly grew up listening to the Stones more. But that doesn't mean I don't love the Beatles.

Polaroids were the instant thing to get a photo back when I started it. You had to wait two days to get your film back if you had a real camera, and I was more of an instant-gratification guy.