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Maybe People Would Be Surprised To Know That I Listen To Old Neil Diamond Albums From Time To Time. The Man Rocks. I Defy Anyone To Prove Me Wrong.

I Think That Breaking Into The Mainstream - It Was Just The Right Cycle Of Music For Us In Blink-182. People Were Kind Of Over The Boy-band, Pop-princess, Manufactured Sensibility, And Were Excited For Guitars And Angst And Energy And Enthusiasm, Which Is Our Thing.

We Never Really Set Out To Talk About California On The Album ['california'], It Was Something That We Noticed That Was Happening About Three-quarters Of The Way Through The Recording Process. We Were Looking At Which Songs We Thought Would Make The Record And We Realised That There Was This Theme Coming Through. I Think It's Just A Product Of Being In California For As Long As I Have.

I Hate It When People Try To Act Cool. I Hope They All Get Gonorreah And Die.

We Worked Very Hard On That Untitled Record To Do Something Different And That We Were Proud Of And To Try A Bunch Of Different Ideas. It Was Like This Gigantic Musical Laboratory That We Were Going To Every Day. I Love That Record, I Think That's One Of The High Watermarks Of Us As A Band.