JAMIE QUOTES

"We just saw a couple kids at one of the shows the other night, one of them had a Snot T-shirt and one had 'R.I.P. Lynn' written on his knuckles, and they both turned out to be big Start fans. I never thought that people who liked Snot would be into this band at all, but a lot of them are. They appreciate the differences between the two bands."

"When I joined Snot, those guys had already written their album. I was the anomaly [in Snot] . I was the little jerk who liked Depeche Mode, playing in a macho band. The other guys were like, 'what's he doin' in here? He doesn't like Metallica.' But I had a blast playing with them. When Aimee and I met, I thought we could write some songs together and start a new band."

"Whatever happened to using ideas form the past and not being labeled retro? Why do some people describe themselves as a late-70's punk band, but they never say 'We're a retro Clash band.' We grew up on new wave, and we felt we could incorporate this thing that hasn't been heard by a newer audience. Older people will say, 'I've heard this before.' Of course you have! Everything's been done before. It's not like we're wearing skinny ties, triangular sunglasses, and have [Patrick] Nagle paintings on the wall."

"We did a gig opening for Simon Says in the Bay Area. I had a guy come up to me wearing a Slipknot t-shirt telling me how great we are."

"I grew up on the Police and U2. I think we're similar in sensibility but I wouldn't say we're retro, no, not at all...we're music from the future."

"When we started the band, we had an idea that we wanted to be influenced by all the music that we liked and grew up on. The rest just sort of happened."

"We're all part of one big, stupid, happy, incestuous L.A. family. Snot's first tour was with Sugar Ray and on our second tour we took Incubus out as an opener."