I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad… I’ve become hateful towards all humans in general… Only because I love and feel sorry for people too much I guess

I mean, we’re not The Staple Singers but I could never see myself singing about Satan or glamorising drug use or anything like that. I just couldn’t do it. I mean, I don’t use cuss-words on my albums, not because I don’t want a sticker on my record but because there’s just no point. It’s been done a million times and I don’t personally need to use that kind of language in my lyrics. I think I have cussed a few times where it was necessary, but I think for the most part we’re pretty positive. I think the only reason we ever had a reputation for being a negative band was because of the articles written about us, addressing the drug use and stuff. Like, we’ve been accused of inciting people to drop out of society. But if we do that, it’s not in a lazy way. I mean, I’ve always thought of us as attacking that Slacker stuff. But we have pointed out things about society that’s not good and I know some people don’t like that, they think it’s dangerous. And I think that’s why they fuck with us.

Sometimes you just can’t save someone from themselves, and in some ways, you kind of prepare yourself emotionally for that to be a reality.