High School Is A Dark Place; I

I Come From A Visual Background, And I Grew Up Around A Lot Of Hippies And Artists. My Mom And My Brother And I Moved Around A Lot. We Basically Moved Every Couple Of Years, And I Went To A Lot Of Different Schools. But Creativity, For Us, Was Always A Way Of Life. It Was Never A Job. Being An Artist Was A Passion And A Way Of Life.

Don't You Just Want To Make Something That Lives Forever? Something That's Phenomenal, Something That's Great, Something That's Undeniable? That Touches The Core Of Every Person That Hears It?

You've Got One Life, Live It. Follow Your Dreams, Quit Your Job, Drop Out Of School, Tell Your Boyfriend That He's Lousy And Walk Out The Door. This Is Your Time. This Is Your Life. You Know What? Dream As Big As You Want To, Its The Cheapest Thing You'll Ever Do.

A Very Common Thing These Days Is People Show Up And They Ask Us In The Band To Sign With A Sharpie Right On Their Skin And They Go Get It Tattooed The Next Day. Then They'll Show Up At Another Show And They'll Have Their Tattoo.

Approval Isn’t Necessary. It’s Nice When You Get It, But It’s Not Going To Stop Us From Being Who We Are. I Mean, If I’d Have Listened To Approval, I’d Never Have Made It One Day Onstage. But To Be Criticized, If There’s Validity, As Upset As You Are, You Can Learn From It.