All the bands get along really well. That's one of the biggest things on a tour. It's great to get all these cool bands together, but if they don't get along it sucks.

Just stay real and stay a real person.

Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.

Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice.

Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

no one tells you rome is ending until you're the last one standing alone in a coliseum where a city had been.

On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

There is no one more capable of helping you than yourself.

To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find new ways to say everything that I want to say.

Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer.

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.

Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.