If you really believe in yourself, you cannot listen to other people.

Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not crazy about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be nasty about it, and you don't have to be public about it.

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

My job is intense. It's very physical.

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully.

God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.

I'm a good person.

I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.

When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.

Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.

I like the way black looks. I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. The black is sort of the bad-guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable.

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.

I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?

I remember times when I was at shows and the person onstage locked eyes with me. And in that moment, everything was right with the world. I think that's part of my job, to create these thousands of moments every night. And for the rest of their life, they can say, 'You guys looked at me,' or 'You sweated on me,' or 'I got your gum.'

We always play clubs. It's not something that I feel above. Those are my favorite shows because they're intimate, they're tight, their sweaty, they're hot. You're close to the people. Those are my favorites.

Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'

I'll be working until I die.

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

I have a tough time judging myself.

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.

I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?

I love school. I was a great student.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.