“Our label is very digital-friendly. We try to provide some free stuff to get interest in the band, but we have to pay our artists. They have to get paid.”

Ian MacKaye was in London while I was living there. We both decided that even though we had very different lifestyles.

I didn’t think I was going to have to do three, but the idiot kept getting reelected.

I got my influences from 70s bands – Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, blah blah blah.

No, we have to support our local artists. It’s just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

Ministry is just ZZ Top with technology.

On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I’m back

Trump represents 30 percent of right wing ideology of white scared people.

I like the collaborative effort of working with people.

There were dinosaur big bands, and that was great. Those were my influences.

Art is commenting on what’s going on around you in your life.

It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

He is making all of the white people scared only 3 out of 10 people really believe all the stuff that is being said by him.

It was the worst night of my life. George W. Bush was reelected, and then I knew

These idiots like Radiohead and Sharon Osbourne that are like, “Free Ozzfest!”, “Pay what you can for a record!”.

The label’s going great, because we’re not idiots. We’re not trying to sue everyone that downloads everything.

People always – when you rise, whenever you’re getting to a point where you’re a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren’t going to like you.

I’m my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

You wouldn’t be a complete band without a slightly cocky frontman, would you?

I’m a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we’ve been in many bands.

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

You can’t just listen to The Smiths anymore. But then there are plenty of people that do only listen to five bands and six albums and that’s it.

Acting had always been the social scene I’d fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.

If you don’t try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you’re just wasting your position as a pop band.