The Devil is fun.
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.
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.
Heaven and hell are something that people create to make some people feel guilty and other people like myself laugh.
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.
Being a drummer definitely influences how I play guitar. And then piano influences drumming and vice versa.
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.
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.
There is sort of an unspoken 'no skateboarding' clause on tour that I break pretty often.
They are one of my favorite bands and one of my first musical loves: Devo.
Fear is sort of like jealousy. It's an unnecessary emotion.
There was some real bad alternative - 'alternative' - stuff that came out in the '90s that's completely cringe-worthy.
I consider myself a pagan and a witch.
I see kids in Cradle of Filth shirts at our shows, which is awesome.
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.
Dallas is a good town. I spent a lot of time there as a kid. It always nice to come back.
I loved anything spooky, mysterious, or frightening.
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.
Never had a mullet.
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.