About music and other groups
* Q: Do You Think GREEN DAY Should Be Considered Punk?
Tom: They shouldn't even be considered. I don't know, man, they got
a couple of hit songs, a catchy groove, great beat, I give them a
0.
* Q: Do you know Billy Corgan or anyone from Smashing Pumpkins...Or
from Metallica or anything?
Tom: No, we don't know anybody. No one gives us the opportunity to
get to know them.
* Kerry: I don't listen to any death metal bands; they sound all
the same to me. You've got a singer fucking growling! Tom has
identity. When you hear Tom sing, you know it's him. When you hear
these guys sing, it sounds like 10 other bands.
* Q: Who would you prefer to do a cover version of "Dead Skin
Mask": Offspring, Marilyn Manson or Bush?
Kerry: Marilyn Manson, because they are sick enough to do it
justice. It's gotta be up there among our sickest songs.
* Q: Do you have nightmares about Jeffrey Dahmer (deceased US
killer)?
Kerry: I have nightmares about Metallica!
Religion & politics
* Q: When I was listening to you guys when I was a teenager in the
early nineties, there was a rumor that you guys were into Satanism.
True or false?
Tom: There was a rumor what? The rumor, it's true, yeah, that was a
rumor. But whether that's actually true, I don't think so. I think
we would have been dead by now or we would have killed some guy in
some band that was bigger than ours and we wanted to be bigger than
them.
* Q: Do you guys go to church?
Tom: Sometimes. Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody
I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.
* Tom when asked about the difference between American and European
audiences:
"You know what my difference is between these two? European
communities and American kids here. In Europe there's more culture,
their parents talk to them and bring them up and understand them.
Here, it's 'here's the key to the house, I got to go to work, your
dinner is in the freezer' then leave little notes saying 'see ya
later, g'bye'. There is often no communication at all. Over there
in Europe, kids respect their parents cause their parents respect
the and respect their privacy. These kids can do whatever they want
in Europe, as long as their parents know what's going on, and the
parents have more understanding of the kids there than they do
here. Here, America is like one for all and one for one person.
That's it."
