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The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

When you were a teenager in Colorado, the way to be a punk rocker was to rip on Reagan and Bush and what they were doing and talk about how everyone in Colorado's a redneck with a gun and all this stuff.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones.

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.