"No matter what we do, no matter how clean we live our lives, we’re not going to survive this."

"We go into all these wild porn shops while on tour; there was one in San Jose which had life-size rubber fists. They had a whole library of books, including one called ‘My Curious Friend, Sparky’ about this girl and her doberman. We can’t wait till we get to Tijuana; you know they’ve got donkey shows down there. They call them ‘three-ring circuses’. That’s donkeys having sex with humans."

"A couple of nights ago, Gary Thorstensen and I got all fucked up in San Jose, and crashed out in the van at six in the morning. At about nine there was a rap on the side of the van and there was a cop standing right there, and I emerged from this drunken stupor, not knowing what was going on. He tells us he’s received a complaint from a young mother who’s walking her children to this elementary school right across the street. She was concerned we might pose a threat to her children, that we might go out and molest them or something. So, we had to move the van two blocks away. I would’ve liked to have molested some children, but it was too early in the morning."

"We’re writing a lot more pop songs, like “About A Girl”—some people might think of that as “changing” into something, but it’s something we’ve always been aware of and are just now starting to express. The stuff we’re listening to now are I guess what are called “cutie bands” in England—Beat Happening, Pixies, Shonen Knife, Young Marble Giants—right now my favorite band is the Vaselines. My biggest influence was punk rock for sure, I was weaned on hard rock like Led Zeppelin, Skin Diver, Aerosmith, and especially the Beatles when I was younger. I’d been kind of developing this style of intense, hard, “grungy,” punk-rock-meets-hard-rock for a couple of years before we started this band, and then it really developed when we got together and stared writing the songs."