In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.
I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.
To kill the misconception, I don’t think the songs we wrote before ‘Danger Days’ are bad songs by any means. In fact, I kinda think some of them are among my favorites we have ever written. A lot of them are kinda f—ing rad… they just so happened to have been created in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and we as their parents were not ready to raise them just yet… and so they sat and waited.
About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.
I feel like you have to make art because you have to make it. But the end result of it- that last stage- you have to show it to somebody else to hopefully get a rise or reaction out of them- [to see] if it'll affect someone else.
Everything I've ever dreamed of, everything in my wildest dreams, is coming true.
When my creative side isn't being fulfilled, I see it affect me in a negative way and I'm not able to become that fatherhusbandman that I want to be. So it's almost like this dark half that you have to satiate in order to become full, in order to become a good person.
I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.
It's the end of the day where wives stay home and raise the kids and all that. That demeaning stuff? No more. Country club memberships, that's what you shoot for! To hell with that.
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
If you're in Australia and you're into technology, Yow! is a no-brainer, but I am going to sing their praises anyway. I've never been so humbled to meet another speaker, or so honored to be in the presence of an conference organizer, as I have been with Yow! It's not just impressive. It's a reason to go to Australia.