It's a band that we grew up on and thought was really cool. It's definitely influenced Fall Out Boy, so it's definitely cool to be a stepping stone for that band for people to check them out. |
It's just not cool when people are on stage and yelling 'faggot' and stuff like that and making people feel uncomfortable. |
It's like a bunch of hard-core kids who decided they were going to write pop music. |
It's something we've always wanted to do as a band, just a quick jaunt through VFW halls and venues like that. We'd announce the show the night before or maybe play under some secret names. And we thought it would be cool because we don't feel like any band has gotten to a certain size and still gone on a VFW hall tour. So we'd like to play a couple of dates on the East Coast. Watch out for it. |
My parents treat me like I'm 14. They make me clean my room and stuff like that. They're always like "I don't care what MTV says you are." |
Nature shows suck ass, though cobras are pretty sweet. Pretty much any animal that has a gang named after it is pretty bad ass. I would go for an animal combo, like a bear that carried a cobra -- total unstoppable force. Give that thing wings and humanity is f***ed. |
Of course, we haven't spoke to anybody at Island Records about this yet -- but you should go ahead and print this, because it'll just make them sweat. |
OK, I can say some more about the video. I got a new analogy for you about it. It's like R. Kelly's 'Trapped in the Closet,' meets Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' ... But with the prologue and epilogue still taking place on the Internet. And I'm being completely serious. Wrap your mind around that. |
On this last tour we set it up like a play: We did act one and act two with an intermission and costume change, and that's hilarious 'cause we just exaggerated everything everyone would ever say about a band like us. And I think that we'll try to do something different on the next tour, step it up. |
Once 3 or 4 million people have seen you naked, it's kind of liberating and you don't really care. But at the time it felt like the dream where you wake up at school with no pants on ... and the school is 4 million people. |
One time I fell in love with a cat, and then I realized it wasn't a human being. It was not as sexy as we thought. |
Sometimes, I'll be walking down the street, and people will be like, 'You're the guy from the antlers video!' And you can't go certain places. We have two buses now. Jay-Z has called me on the phone, ... But a lot of things probably will never change - like our friendships and our working relationships. As far as me and Patrick [Stump, the singer] and all of Fall Out Boy, it's in a vacuum. |
Sometimes, I'll be walking down the street, and people will be like, 'You're the guy from the antlers video!' And you can't go certain places. We have two buses now. Jay-Z has called me on the phone. But a lot of things probably will never change - like our friendships and our working relationships. As far as me and Patrick [Stump, the singer] and all of Fall Out Boy, it's in a vacuum. |
Texas is always amazing. All the rumors about it are true and the shows are insane. Austin police threatened to arrest us, and we were fined $15,000 dollars for playing Saturday past curfew. Definitely worth it. |
That's just a decision that I made and some friends of mine thought was a good idea and some people within the band thought was a good idea, ... That's why Japan was canceled. |