The Beatles Never Get Old.

We Never Really Set Out To Talk About California On The Album ['california'], It Was Something That We Noticed That Was Happening About Three-quarters Of The Way Through The Recording Process. We Were Looking At Which Songs We Thought Would Make The Record And We Realised That There Was This Theme Coming Through. I Think It's Just A Product Of Being In California For As Long As I Have.

I Think People Take Blink-128 More Seriously Now Than They Did Before. And It's Largely Our Fault Because We Called Our Records Enema Of The State And Take Off Your Pants And Jacket. We Were Always Kind Of The Underdogs, Especially Critically. People Wrote Us Off As This Joke Band. But The People Who Listened To Blink Knew That We Were Silly And Whatever, But We Wrote Songs About Divorce And Suicide And Depression. Those Kids That Were Listening To Blink Are Now The Ones That Control All These Outlets That Used To Just Write Us Off.

Why Do Scuba Divers Fall Backwards Off A Boat? Because If They Fell Forwards They'd Still Be In The Boat.

I Grew Up The Biggest Fan Of The Cure. Knew Every Lyric, Had Every Album, B-side, Single, Poster, Everything. Then Cut To Fifteen Years Later, And We're Working On Songs Together. Ridiculous.

Getting To Meet Other Artists That I Admire Is One Of The Best Parts Of My Job. I Don't Know If I'd Say "star Struck" As Much As Excited To Hear Other Peoples' Ideas.